- Jack Kilby & the Front Line – Love is A Song Anyone Can Sing (Crab Shack Music)
- Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom – Glitterwolf (Royal Potato Family)
- Catherine Russell – Alone Together (Dot Time)
- Herlin Riley – Perpetual Optimism (Mack Avenue)
- Holly Cole – Holly (Shanachie)
- Betty Carter – The Music Never Stops (Blue Engine)
- Michael Wolff – Swirl (Sunnyside)
- Dave Stryker – Eight Track III (Strikezone)
- Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan – Epistrophy (ECM)
- Chuck Redd – Groove City (Delphine)
- Ellen Rowe Octet – Momentum (Smokin’ Sleddog)
- Lioness – Pride and Joy (Posi-Tone)
- Snorre Kirk – Beat (Stunt)
- Jim Snidero – Waves of Calm (Savant)
- Matt Kane – The Other Side of the Story (Bounce Step)
- Mark Walker – You Get What You Give (Fliposphere)
- Five Play – Live from the Firehouse Stage (Five Play)
- Akira Tana & Otonowa – Ai San San (Vega)
- Steve Davis – Correlations (Smoke Sessions)
- New Orleans Jazz Orchestra – Songs: The Music of Allen Toussaint (Storyville)
- Soul Message Band – Soulful Days (Delmark)
- James Suggs – You’re Gonna Hear From Me (Arbors)
- Alvin Queen Trio – O.P. (Stunt)
- Art ‘Turk’ Burton - Ancestral Spirits (T N’ T)
- Wynton Marsalis – Bolden (Blue Engine)
- Tyler Blanton – Sense of Place (Destiny)
- Paul Serrato & Co. – Gotham Nights (SDJ)
- Ralph Peterson & the Messenger Legacy – Legacy Alive Vol. 6 At the Side Door (Onyx)
- Joe Fiedler – Open Sesame (Multiphonics)
- Chicago Soul Jazz Collective – Soulophone (Chicago Soul Jazz Collective)
- JV’s Boogaloo Squad – Going to Market (Flatcar)
- Pete Coco – Lined with a Groove (Pete Coco Music)
- Vanessa Rubin – The Dream Is You (Nibur)
- Joe Magnarelli Quintet – If You Could See Me Now (Cellar Live)
- Ted Piltzecker – Brindica (Zoho)
- Eric Reed – Everybody Gets the Blues (Smoke Sessions)
- Joey DeFrancesco – In the Key of the Universe (Mack Avenue)
- 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)
Chris Heim produces and hosts Global Village, a nationally and internationally distributed world music show; the nightly jazz show Night Train, and Crossroads, KMUW’s twice-weekly blues and R&B show. Chris is also a critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, and Option, among others.