Tonight’s Cosmic Jazz featured a round up of the best jazz of the year. We played some of the best new releases, reissues and compilations that we’ve checked out on the show over the last twelve months.

1. Chico Hamilton – Manila
2. Elvin Jones – Dear John C
3. Austin Peralta – Algiers
4. Sean Hutchinson’s Still Life – Red Fish Blue Fish Dead Fish Same Fish
5. Arun Ghosh – Caliban’s Revenge
6. Leon Greening – Waterloo
7. Kurt Elling – Blue in Green
8. Steve Colson and the Unity Troupe – Cidigie-Dicesui
9. Ma – We Need Two
10. Gregory Porter – Lonely One
11. Joe Lovano – Ko Ko
12. Lloyd McNeil Quartet – Home Rule
13. Matthew Halsall – The Move
14. Nat Birchall – Ancient World
15. John Coltrane – The Promise