Yay lists! Here's mine for the decade just past (or not):
Mary Halvorson/Bill Frisell: Girl With the Flaxen Hair (Johnny Smith tribute), this is the record that turned me around on Halvorson
Lonnie Smith: All In My Mind (Blue Note), simple straight forward live date with working trio, greasy and spacey
John Scofield - Country For Old Men, not as good as the live date in support I saw, but a great concept
JD Allen - Graffiti, this grabbed me in a way his others haven't, it's got that Sax Colossus/Our Man in Paris swagger
Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome, finally the album the've been threatening to make for decades
William Bell - This is Where I Live (Stax), not a recreation of vintage Stax but certainly rooted in it
Enrico Rava - On the Dance Floor (ECM), an MJ tribute, live with a big band, putting him in a context ranging from Sousa to JB
Regina Carter - Southern Comfort, a tribute to her coal miner forbearers
an I'm sure I forgot one or two. do Sonny R's Road Show comps count?