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| Richard Davis | Forest Flower | Harvest | Muse | |
| Jimmy Smith | Get Out of My Life | Respect | Verve | |
| Larry Coryell | Call To the Higher Consciousness | Basic | Vanguard | |
| Miroslav Vitous | Freedom Jazz Dance | Mountain in the Clouds | Atlantic | |
| Joe McPhee | Voices | Everything Happens For A Reason | Roaratorio | |
| Billy Bang & Dennis Charles | Thelonius | Bangception | Hat Hut | |
| Kahil El' Zabar's Ritual Trio | Trane in Mind | Chicago's Avant Today | Delmark | * |
| Revolutionary Ensemble | Ism Schism | ...And Now | Pi | |
| Leroy Jenkins & Rashid Ali | Swift Are the Winds of Life | Swift Are the Winds of Life | Survival | |
| Joseph Jarman & Leroy Jenkins | Rain Forest | Out of the Mist | Ocean | |
| Equal Interest | Over This/Living Music | Equal Interest | Omni Tone | |
| Myra Melford | Changes 1 & 2 | Same River Twice | Grammavision | |
| Myra Melford & Han Bennink | Frank Goes To | Eleven Ghosts | Hat Hut | |
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