FREE JAZZ COLLECTIVE Writer Hyran Attarian’s Best 10 Albums of the Year
- Marshall Allen – New Dawn (Weekend Records)
- Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier – Angel Falls (Intakt Records)
- Stian Larsen/Colin Webster/Ruth Goller/Andrew Lisle – Temple of Muses (Relative Pitch)
- William Parker/Hugo Costa/Philipp Ernsting – Pulsar (NoBusiness)
- Ivo Perelman and Nate Wooley – Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance)
- Bloomers – Cyclism (Relative Pitch)
- Amir ElSafffar – New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal 2 (Maqām Records)
- Isaiah Collier, William Parker, William Hooker – The Ancients (Eremite)
- Alexandra Grimal & Giovanni Di Domenico – Shakkei (Relative Pitch Records)
- SoSaLa – 1983 – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival and Rathausplatz Bern (DooBeeDoo Records)