| Wynton Marsalis | Unforgivable Blackness | Blue Note |
| LCJO | A Love Supreme | Palmetto |
| Manuel Valera | Forma Nueva | Mavo |
| Terri Lyne Carrington | Structure | ACT |
| Gui Mallon | Live at Montreux | Adventure |
| Maurice Brown | Hip to Bop | Brown Music |
| Caribbean Jazz Proj | Here & Now | Concord Picante |
| Eric Alexander | Dead Center | High Note |
| Denis Colin | Something in Common | Sunnyside |
| Donald Harrison | Free Style | Nagel Heyer |