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Wadada Leo Smith - Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)

Andrew Hill - Spiral (Freedom)

Oliver Lake - Again and Again (Gramavision) I like this one a lot (cover notwithstanding).

Aaron Parks - Little Big (Ropeadope)

"The Chicago Symphonies is a magnificent four-CD boxed set by Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet. Each disc includes one of the four symphonies composed by Wadada Leo Smith for this quartet. The first three symphonies, 'Gold Symphony,' 'Diamond Symphony' and 'Pearl Symphony,' are performed by Wadada Leo Smith with saxophonist/flutist Henry Threadill, bassist John Lindberg and drummer Jack DeJohnette whereas the fourth, 'Sapphire Symphony - The Presidents and Their Visions of America,' features Smith with saxophonist Jonathon Haffner, Lindberg and DeJohnette. The idea of a symphony composed for a quartet was first presented by Don Cherry on his classic recording Symphony For Improvisers in 1966 but Wadada Leo Smith has brought this idea to the present day and broadened it to include social and political into the creative space. The Chicago Symphonies celebrate the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians and the historical development of creative music in Chicago starting with Louis Armstrong and through Sun Ra onto the AACM as well as, in the case of 'Sapphire Symphony,' Abraham Lincoln and Baraka Hussein Obama."

Luke Stewart & Jarvis Earnshaw Quartet (No Quarter) Luke Stewart - bass Jarvis Earnshaw - sitar, loops Ryan Sawyer - drums Devan Waldman - alto sax

Olie Brice / Tobias Delius / Mark Sanders - somersaults (Two Rivers Records)

The London Haydn Quartet - Haydn String Quartets Op. 50 (Hyperion)

Andrew Hill - Dusk (Palmetto)

David Sanford Big Band featuring Hugh Ragin - A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf)

Dizzy Gillespie - Birks Works (Verve)

William Parker - Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)

Sonny Rollins - Sonny, Please (Doxy) William Parker - Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity)

Sonny Rollins - Global Warming (Milestone)

Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins +3 (Milestone)