RECORD LABELS OF THE YEAR
AUM Fidelity
Clean Feed
Intakt
Jazzwerkstatt (Germany)
Mosaic

VENUES OF THE YEAR
Cornelia Street Cafe (West Village)
Jazz Standard (Murray Hill/Gramercy)
Roulette (SoHo)
The Stone (Alphabet City)
Village Vanguard (West Village)

PERFORMANCES OF THE YEAR
Tyshawn Sorey Quartet
Ben Gerstein, Cory Smythe, Christopher Tordini
Roulette, May 22nd

Billy Bang/Kidd Jordan/William Parker/Hamid Drake
Vision Festival, Clemente Solo Vélez Cultural Center, June 11th

George Lewis/Joelle Leandre
Vision Festival, Clemente Solo Velez Cultural Center, June 14th

William Parker's Inside the Songs of Curtis Mayfield
Amiri Baraka, Leena Conquest, Lewis Barnes, Darryl Foster, Sabir Mateen, Dave Burrell, Hamid Drake
Vision Festival, Clemente Solo Velez Cultural Center, June 15th

Getatchew Mekurya and The Ex
Terrie Ex, GW Sok, Andy Moor, Katherina Ex
Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Damrosch Park, August 20th

Earl Howard
Anthony Davis, Gerry Hemingway
Roulette, September 28th

Myra Melford Happy Whistlings Quartet
Matana Roberts, Mary Halvorson, Harris Eisenstadt
Roulette, October 2nd

Polwechsel
Martin Brandlmayr, Burkhard Beins, Michael Moser, Werner Dafeldecker
Issue Project Room, October 5th

Joe McPhee/Jay Rosen/Mikolaj Trzaska
Alain Kirili Loft, November 3rd

MPLD (Gill Arno)
Scrapcycle, Silent Barn, November 21st
-Kurt Gottschalk

Marilyn Crispell/Mark Helias/Paul Motian
Village Vanguard, March 13th

Peter Brotzmann/Han Bennink/Peter Evans/Tom Blancarte
Clemente Solo Vélez Cultural Center, Vision Club, April 20th

Muhal Richard Abrams/George Lewis/Wadada Leo Smith
Community Church of New York, May 9th

Denman Maroney/Mark Dresser
Clemente Solo Vélez Cultural Center, Vision Festival, June 10th

Billy Harper Quintet
Francesca Tanksley, Keyon Harold, Clarence Seay, Aaron Scott
Studio Museum in Harlem, JVC Jazz Festival, June 26th
Charles Lloyd Quartet
Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers, Eric Harland
NY Society for Ethical Culture, JVC Jazz Festival, June 28th

Trio 3 with Geri Allen
Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille
Birdland, July 26th

Either/Orchestra with Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete
Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Damrosch Park, August 20th

Nicole Mitchell, Matana Roberts, Craig Taborn, Chad Taylor
The Kitchen, October 11th

3rd Eye
Nasheet Waits, Eric McPherson, Abraham Burton
Search and Restore Series/JazzMix Festival, Knitting Factory, November 25th
-Laurence Donohue-Greene

Matana Roberts Quartet
Jeff Parker, Josh Abrams, Tyshawn Sorey
Jazz Gallery, February 28th

Francois Rabbath Solo
David Gage String Instruments, March 3rd

Marilyn Crispell/Mark Helias/Paul Motian
Village Vanguard, March 13th

Michael Blake/Kresten Osgood/Oliver Lake
Downtown Music Gallery, March 30th

Paul Motian Trio 2000 +2
Loren Stillman, Michael Attias, Masabumi Kikuchi, Thomas Morgan
Village Vanguard, May 28th

Kurt Rosenwinkel Group
David Tronzo, JA Granelli, Matt Wilson
Smalls, June 1st

Martial Solal/Francois Moutin
Jazz Score Program, Museum of Modern Art, June 14th

Michael Attias Double-Double Bass & Horn Band
Tony Malaby, John Hebert, Sean Conly, Nasheet Waits
Zebulon, August 4th

Anat Fort Trio
Gary Wang, Paul Motian
Harlem in the Himalayas, Rubin Museum of Art, November 14th

L'Orchestre de Contrebasses
Xavier Lugue, Etienne Roumanet, Olivier Moret, Yves Torchinsky, Jean-Philippe Viret, Christian Gentet
Connelly Theatre, December 2nd
-Andrey Henkin

McCoy Tyner Quartet
Joe Lovano, Gerald Cannon, Eric Kamau Gravatt
Blue Note, January 18th

Eddie Palmieri/Brian Lynch Project
Yosvany Terry, Conrad Herwig, Manuel Valera, Dafnis Prieto
Iridium, April 26th

Ben Riley's Monk Legacy Septet
Don Sickler, Bruce Williams, Wayne Escoffery, Jay Brandford, Freddie Bryant, Cameron Brown
Jazz Standard, May 4th

Brian Blade Fellowship
Melvin Butler, Myron Walden, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jon Cowherd, Doug Weiss
Village Vanguard, June 20th

Sonny Rollins
Cliffton Anderson, Bobby Broom, Bob Cranshaw, Kobie Watkins, Kimati Dinizulu
Central Park Summerstage, August 6th

Roy Haynes & Fountain of Youth
Jaleel Shaw, Martin Bejerano, David Wong
Dizzy's Club, August 31st

Jazz for Obama
Various Artists
92nd Street Y, October 1st

Dave Holland Sextet
Antonio Hart, Eric Harland, Alex Sipiagin, Mulgrew Miller, Robin Eubanks
Birdland, October 8th

Wayne Shorter 75th Birthday Celebration
Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Brian Blade and Imani Winds
Carnegie Hall, December 2nd

Miguel Zenon Plena Project
Luis Perdomo, Hans Glawischnig, Henry Cole, Hector "Tito" Matos, Juan Gutierrez, Obanilu Allende
Jazz Gallery, December 4th
-Russ Musto

ALBUMS OF THE YEAR