Fred Kaplan's list:
1. Jason Moran, Ten (Blue Note).
2. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Jasmine (ECM).
3. Geri Allen, Flying Toward the Sound (Motema).
4. Dave Douglas, Spark of Being (Greenleaf).
5. Fred Hersch, Whirl (Palmetto).
6. Henry Threadgill, This Brings Us to Vol. 2 (Pi).
7. Ted Nash, Portraits in Seven Shades (LCJO).
8. The Bad Plus, Never Stop (E-One).
9. Anat Fort, And If (ECM).
10. John Zorn’s Masada String Trio, Haborym: The Book of Angels, Vol. 16 (Tzadik).