- Joe Fiedler – Open Sesame (Multiphonics)
- Chicago Soul Jazz Collective – Soulophone (Chicago Soul Jazz Collective)
- JV’s Boogaloo Squad – Going to Market (Flatcar)
- New Orleans Jazz Orchestra – Songs-The Music of Allen Toussaint (Storyville)
- Soul Message Band – Soulful Days (Delmark)
- Catherine Russell – Alone Together (Dot Time)
- Pete Coco – Lined with a Groove (Pete Coco Music)
- Michael Wolff – Swirl (Sunnyside)
- Ellen Rowe Octet – Momentum (Smokin’ Sleddog)
- Betty Carter – The Music Never Stops (Blue Engine)
- Vanessa Rubin – The Dream Is You (Nibur)
- Jack Kilby & the Front Line – Love is A Song Anyone Can Sing (Crab Shack Music)
- Ted Piltzecker – Brindica (Zoho)
- Al Hood & the H2 Jazztet – Jazz Muses (Aquarium)
- Caesar Frazier – Closer to the Truth (Savant)
- Joe Magnarelli Quintet – If You Could See Me Now (Cellar Live)
- Etta Jones – A Soulful Sunday (Reel to Real)
- Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom – Glitterwolf (Royal Potato Family)
- Dave Stryker – Eight Track III (Strikezone)
- Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan – Epistrophy (ECM)
- Herlin Riley – Perpetual Opitmism (Mack Avenue)
- Eric Reed – Everybody Gets the Blues (Smoke Sessions)
- Joey DeFrancesco – In the Key of the Universe (Mack Avenue)
- Akira Tana & Otonowa – Love’s Radiance (Vega)
- Cory Weeds – Live at Frankie’s Jazz Club (Cellar Live)
- Ron Jackson – Standards and Other Songs (Roni Music)
- Tony Monaco – The Definition of Insanity (Chicken Coup)
- Holly Cole – Holly (Shanachie)
- Christian McBride – Christian McBride’s New Jawn (Mack Avenue)
- Lyn Stanley – London Calling (A.T. Music)
- Mark Walker – You Get What You Give (Fliposphere)
- Etienne Charles – Carnival: The Sound of a People Vol. 1 (Culture Shock)
- Chuck Redd – Groove City (Delphine)
- Harold Mabern – The Iron Man (Smoke Sessions)
Al Muirhead’s Canadian Quintet – Undertones (Chronograph) - Matt Kane – The Other Side of the Story (Bounce Step)
- Emmet Cohen Trio – Dirty in Detroit (Emmet Cohen)
- Pat Bianchi – In the Moment (Savant)
- Chucho Valdes – Jazz Bata 2 (Mack Avenue)
- Ernie Watts Quartet – Home Light (Flying Dolphin)
- June Bisantz & Alex Nakhimovsky – Love’s Tango (EH2U)