Honorable Mention:

Lucian Ban & John Hébert, Enesco Re-Imagined (Sunnyside)

Evan Christopher, Remembering Song (Arbors); Empirical, Out ’n’ In (Naim); Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh, Radif Suite (Pi); John Escreet, Don’t Fight the Inevitable (Mythology); Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz); Tomas Fujiwara & Taylor Ho Bynum, Stepwise (NotTwo); Microscopic Septet, Friday the 13th: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform); Joe Morris, Camera (ESP-Disk); Jeremy Pelt, Men of Honor(HighNote).