As in the past, the meta-list is alphabetized by writers' names. When a list was collaborative or presented as a staff-written project, the name of the publication or media outlet is used instead, with the writers' names noted if available. This post will be updated multiple times over the next several weeks as more lists become available. Here's what's out there so far:
* A Closer Listen - The Year's Best Labels; Top Ten Rock, Post-Rock, Folk & Jazz; Top Ten Field Recording & Soundscape; Top Ten Ambient; Top Ten Experimental; Top Ten Drone
* A Jazz Noise - The Best Jazz & Noise of 2015…?
* S. Victor Aaron, SomethingElse.com - Best of 2015 (Modern and Mainstream Jazz); Best of 2015 (Avant Garde + Experimental); Best of 2015 (Fusion Jazz)
* Acoustic Levitation - Best of 2015
* Judy Adams, Dirty Dog Jazz Cafe - Judy’s “Top Ten List” of Jazz Releases for 2015; 15 More for 2015
* The Afterword - Jazz Albums of 2015
* AlbanyJazz.com (Albert Brooks, Dylan Canterbury, Rudy Lu, Brian Patneaude, Tom Pierce, Randy Treece) - Top 5 Jazz Albums of 2015
* AllAboutJazz.com - Top 25 MP3 Downloads: 2015; Top 12 "Most Read" Album Reviews: 2015; Top 12 "Recommended" Album Reviews: 2015; Top 15 "Most Read" Interviews: 2015; Top 15 "Most Read" Articles: 2015; Top 15 "Recommended" Articles: 2015; 2015: The Year in Jazz
* Andy Allen, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* AllMusic.com - Favorite Jazz Albums
* Hrayr Attarian, AllAboutJazz.com - Best Releases of 2015
* Peter Bacon, The Jazz Breakfast - 2015 Festive 50: 50-41; 40-31; 30-21; 20-11; 10-1; My top five from the recording archives
* Bertrand Backeland, PointCulture.be - Best of Jazz 2015
* Jakob Baekgaard, AllAboutJazz.com - Best of 2015
* C. Michael Bailey, AllAboutJazz.com - Best Releases of 2015; Notable and Nearly Missed 2015
* Brandon Baker, PhillyVoice - Decades after Dizzy, Philly jazz inches its way back to center stage
* Phil Barnes, AllAboutJazz.com - Favourite Albums of 2015
* Chris Barton, Los Angeles Times - 2015's must-hear jazz albums carve new paths and communicate eloquently
* Adam Baruch, Polish Jazz - Top Ten 2015
* Andy Beta, Washington Post - In 2015, jazz reasserted itself
* Nick Bewsey, ICON Magazine/WRTI - Best Jazz Recordings of 2015
* Dan Bilawsky, AllAboutJazz.com - Best Releases Of 2015
* Terence Blanchard, SFJAZZ - Top 5 Albums Of 2015
* Larry Blumenfeld, Blu Notes/Wall Street Journal - Top Ten Jazz Recordings of 2015
* Mike Borella, Avant Music News - Best of 2015
* Cisco Bradley, Jazz Right Now - Best Records of 2015; Best Live Concerts of 2015
* Albert Brooks, Nippertown - Top 5 Vocal Albums
* Bill Brownlee, Plastic Sax - Favorite Albums and Performances of 2015
* Alain Brunet, LaPresse.ca - Le temps des listes !!! Top jazz 2015
* Pete Buckenham, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* Burning Ambulance - Best Jazz Of 2015 Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
* Robert Bush, SoundDiego - The 12 Unforgettable Jazz Concerts of 2015; Top 10 Jazz Records of 2015
* Andrea Canter, JazzInk - Highlights in Twin Cities Jazz: Fifteen Plus in 2015
* CapitalBop (Luke Stewart, Giovanni Russonello) - 5 best D.C. jazz albums of 2015
* CBC - 10 outstanding Canadian jazz albums of 2015
* Nate Chinen, New York Times - Jazz 2015: In the Spotlight and the Cross Hairs
* Brad Cohan, Observer.com - The Best Experimental Albums of 2015
* Doug Collette, AllAboutJazz.com - Best of 2015
* Troy Collins, AllAboutJazz.com - Best Releases of 2015
* James Cooper (aka firstcitybook), Red Moon Cafe - Quick List of Jazz Favorites for 2015
* Bob Craig, WRTI - The Best of the 2015 Big Band Jazz Releases
* Thomas Cunniffe, Jazz History Online - "2015: The Summation"
* Curtis Davenport, Curt's Jazz Cafe - Best Jazz Albums of 2015
* Anthony Dean-Harris, NextBop.com - Favorite Jazz Albums of 2015
* Arnaldo DeSouteiro, Jazz Station - The 37th Annual Jazz Station Awards / The Best Jazz of 2015 / Os Melhores do Jazz em 2015
* John Diliberto, Echoes - Top 25 of 2015
* Zlatan Dimitrijević, JazzIn.Rs - Best of 2015
* Nick DeRiso, Something Else - Best of 2015 (Blues, Jazz + R&B): Boz Scaggs, Gavin Harrison, Alabama Shakes
* DownBeat - Best Albums of 2015: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3
* Downtown Music Gallery - Select Top 10 Lists of 2015 by a Dozen Musicians & Music Journalists
* Jim Dupuis, !Earshot - Best of Jazz 2015
* Curtis Elledge, Strangeblood Blog - Top 20 recordings of 2015
* Rick Erben, KIOS - Jazz Junction: Best of 2015
* Fatih Erkan, Music Is The Life - My Best Jazz Albums of 2015 List
* Exclaim! - Top 10 Improv & Avant-Garde Albums
* John Fordham, The Guardian UK - The playlist: best jazz of 2015 – Kamasi Washington, Joshua Redman, Polar Bear and more
* Preston Frazier, SomethingElse.com - Best of 2015 (Jazz): Marc Cary, Solitaire Miles, Adam Larson + Jose James
* The Free Jazz Collective - Albums of the Year 2015
* Jon Garelick, Boston Globe - The best jazz albums of 2015
* Mike Gates, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* Nenad Georgievski, AllAboutJazz.com - Best of 2015
* Andrew Gilbert, KQED/San Jose Mercury-News - The Top 10 Bay Area Jazz Releases of 2015; Best of 2015: Bay Area jazz artists had a banner year
* Ted Gioia, TedGioia.com/The Daily Beast - The 100 Best Albums of 2015
* Arturo Gómez, KUVO - 2015's Most Notable Jazz Releases
* Brian Goucher, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* George Grelle, The Big City - Best Jazz Albums 2015
* David Hadju, The Nation - Forget What You’ve Heard: These Were the Ten Best Albums of 2015
* George W Harris, JazzWeekly.com - My Favorite Things-It’s Top Ten Time!!!
* A. Noah Harrison, PopMatters - The Best Avant-Garde and Experimental Music of 2015
* Ron Hart, Observer.com - The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2015
* Chris Heim, KMUW - Night Train: Best of 2015
* Steve Holtje, Culture Catch - Best Jazz/Improvised Albums of 2015
* Tom Hull, TomHull.com - The Best Jazz Albums of 2015
* Peter Hum, Ottawa Citizen - 2015's jazz list bliss; A bumper crop of made-in-Ottawa jazz in 2015
* J Hunter, Nippertown - Top 25 Jazz Recordings, Part I; Part II; 10 Best Concerts… And More
* ICI Musique, Radio Canada - Top 50 des meilleurs albums de 2015
* Igloo Magazine - Best of 2015
* El Intruso - Eighth Annual International Critics Poll; Tenth Annual International Musicians Poll
* Jazz90.1 - Top 40 Countdown of 2015
* Jazz.FM91 "Music To Listen To Jazz By" - Our Hosts' 2015 Favs
* JazzWeek - Year End Jazz Chart: 2015
* Jazzwise - Top 20 Jazz Albums of 2015
* Jazz Journalists Association - 2015 'Best of Jazz' Selected by JJA Members
* Jazz Times - Readers' Poll Results 2015; Critics’ Picks: Top 50 CDs; Top 50 CDs: Individual Ballots
* David Brent Johnson, WFIU - Best Historical Releases 2015: The Year The Seventies Broke
* Bojan Jović, JazzIn.Rs - The Best of 2015
* Fred Kaplan, Slate/Stereophile - The Best Jazz Albums of 2015
* Piotr Kaźmierczak, Sound & Complete - My Favorite Jazz Albums of 2015
* Joe Klopus, Kansas City Star - Jazz Town: KC jazz took a few steps backward in 2015
* KMHD (Matt Fleeger, Derek Smith, Jessica Rand) - Top 10 Jazz Albums Of 2015
* Lea LeFebvre, Clture.org - Ten Best Jazz/Funk/Jam Rock Albums of 2015
* London Jazz News - Jazz Moments to Treasure from 2015; Musicians of the Year (Under 35); Musicians of the Year (Over 35); Wishes for individuals and for the scene in 2016
* Rudy Lu, Nippertown - Top 10 Favorite Concerts
* Tomasz Łuczak, Polish Jazz - Top Ten 2015
* Kevin Lynch, No Depression - Culture Currents Best Jazz Albums of 2015, etc
* Jim Macnie, Lament For A Straight Line - 10 Fantastic Jazz Albums – 2015
* Mateusz Magierowski, Polish Jazz - Top Ten 2015
* Adrian Magrys, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* Nikola Marković, JazzIn.Rs - The Best of 2015
* Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader - The best jazz recordings of 2015
* Marlbank.net - Did jazz go forward, back, or simply stand still in 2015?
* Dan McClenaghan, AllAboutJazz.com - Best Releases of 2015
* Bill Meyer, Magnet - Best Of 2015: Jazz/Improv
* Milo Miles, Miles to Go - Top 10 Jazz Albums 2015
* Tony Minvielle, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* Ralph Miriello, Huffington Post - The Best of Jazz for 2015
* Chris Monsen, Perfect Sounds - Ten fave jazz albums of 2015 (with promises of more to come)
* Allen Morrison, AllenMorrison.com - My 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2015 (Jazz Times)
* James Nadal, AllAboutJazz.com - Best of 2015
* Jez Nelson, Jazz on 3 - Best of 2015
* New York Times (Nate Chinen, Jon Pareles, Ben Ratliff) - Best Albums of 2015; Popcast: Jazz in 2015
* Nextbop.com - Favorite Jazz Albums of 2015
* Jessica Nicholas, Sydney Morning Herald/ABC Jazz - Jazz year in review: Drummer Allan Browne's loss looms large over year of greats; Best of 2015
* Tim Niland, Music and More - El Intruso: The 8th Creative Music Critics Poll 2015
* NPR - The 2015 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll
* Offbeat - Burning Bright: The 50 best albums of 2015
* Other Music - Best of 2015
* Dan Ouellette, ZEALnyc.com - Top 3 Jazz Debut Albums for 2015
* Vince Outlaw, San Diego Jazz 88.3 - Top 10 Best Jazz of 2015
* Andrew Patton, JazzColumbus.com - Top 10 Records of 2015
* Tomas Peña, JazzDeLaPena.com - 2015, The Year in Music
* Pitchfork.com (Marc Masters, Grayson Haver Currin)- Best Experimental Albums of the Year
* Polish Jazz - Top Ten Albums!!!
* Denis Poole, Smooth Jazz Therapy - Top Twenty Of 2015; Top Ten Covers Of 2015
* PopMatters (John Garratt, Will Layman) - The Best Jazz of 2015
* ProperMusic.com - Best Jazz Of 2015
* Bruce Q, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune - Best jazz albums of 2015; Best jazz box sets, from Sinatra to Miles to Mehldau; Chicagoan of the Year in Jazz: cellist, composer, bandleader Tomeka Reid; Resolutions for a new year in Chicago jazz
* Revive Music - Top 12 Songs of 2015: Part I
* Revolver - Top Jazz Albums of 2015
* Matthew Ruddick, Kind of Jazz - Best Of 2015: Our Recommended Albums
* Richard Sanford, JazzColumbus.com - Top 10 Records of 2015
* Bret Saunders, Denver Post - Best jazz albums of 2015, including new and reissued works
* John Schaefer, WNYC "New Sounds" - Top 10 for 2015
* Colette Schryburt, Rreverb.com - What’s Hot in Jazz in 2015?
* Gene Seymour, ThatGeneSeymour.com - Top Ten Jazz Discs for 2015
* SFJAZZ - Staff's Top Albums Of 2015
* John Sharpe, AllAboutJazz.com - Best Releases of 2015
* Hank Shteamer, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches/Rolling Stone - 2015 in review
* Jeff Simon, Buffalo News - Listening Post: The Best of 2015
* Simon Skolfield, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* Stewart Smith, The Quietus - Complete Communion: Stewart Smith On The Best Jazz Of 2015
* Jon Solomon, Westword - Favorite Jazz Albums of 2015
* Soul Brother Records - Best new jazz albums of 2015; Best smooth jazz albums of 2015
* Tim Stenhouse, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* Mark Sullivan, AllAboutJazz.com - Best Releases of 2015
* Dave Sumner, Bird Is The Worm - Best of 2015
* Sun Ship - Les Meilleurs disques 2015
* Derek Taylor, Dusted - Best of 2015
* The Telegraph UK (Ivan Hewitt, Martin Chilton) - Best jazz albums of 2015
* Larry Reni Thomas, JazzCorner.com - Top Ten Jazz 2015
* Mark F. Turner, AllAboutJazz.com - Best of 2015
* UDiscoverMusic.com - The Best Jazz of 2015
* UK Vibe - Best jazz albums of 2015
* Michael Ullman, The Arts Fuse - Top Jazz Albums of 2015
* George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune - Best jazz concerts & albums of 2015 inspire
* Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight - Top 10 albums of 2015
* Predrag Vlahović, JazzIn.Rs - The Best of 2015
* WBGO (Gary Walker, Rhonda Hamilton and Michael Bourne) - Best in Jazz: 2015
* Carol Banks Weber, AXS.com - For your consideration: Best jazz albums of 2015 Grammy voters missed; Best of the rest of jazz in 2015
* Christopher R. Weingarten, Rolling Stone - 20 Best Avant Albums of 2015
* Michael J. West, Washington City Paper - The Jazzies: D.C.’s Best Jazz in 2015
* Damian Wilkes, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* Richard Williams, The Blue Moment - 2015: The best bits
* Steve Williams, UK Vibe - Best of 2015
* Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch/STLtoday.com - Terence Blanchard, Tim Berne among jazz highlights of the year
* The Wire UK - Top 50 Releases of 2015
* WNPR (Gene Seymour, Jen Allen, Noah Baerman) - A Look Back at the Best Jazz of 2015
* Piotr Wojdat, Polish Jazz - Top Ten 2015
* WPFW - 2015 Jazz Programmer’s Poll
* Saul Zavarce, PBS 106.7FM "Fiesta Jazz" - The Best of 2015 part 1
Active scouting for more lists will continue for at least a couple more weeks, but your input is welcome, too. If you've seen any other 2015 year-end jazz lists that aren't mentioned here, please use the comments (or send me an email) to share the information. And if you like, please feel free also to use the comments to discuss your own favorite jazz releases, shows and moments of 2015.
Finally, if you want to re-visit StLJN's past "best of" list round-ups, here are the meta-lists for 2007 (parts 1 and 2), 2008 (parts 1 and 2), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014.
Updated 12/30/15 with 20 more lists. Updated 12/31/15 with eight more lists. Updated 1/1/16 with seven more lists. Updated 1/2/16 with six more lists. Updated 1/3/16 with seven more lists. Updated 1/4/16 with four more lists. Updated 1/5/16 with five more lists. Updated 1/7/16 with four more lists. Updated 1/7/16 with eight more lists. Updated 1/9/16 with three more lists. Updated 1/11/16 with two more lists. Updated 1/12/16 with one more list. Updated 1/14/16 with two more lists. Updated 1/16/16 with two more lists. Updated 1/21/16 with four more lists. Updated 2/2/16 with three more lists.
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