| Randy Weston | African Cookbook | The Spirits Of Our Ancestors | Antilles/Polygram |
| Bobby Sanabria | Blues Guaguanco | From Havana to N.Y. | Vero Records |
| Bobby Matos & his AfroLatin Jazz Ens | Santiaguito | Beautiful As The Moon | Life Forcejazz Records |
| DeeDee Bridgewater | Strange Fruit | Eleanora Fagan to Billie With Love | DDB Records |
| Irwin Mayfield | Old Time Indians/James Booker | A Love Letter To New Orleans | Basin Street Records |
| Los Pleneros de La 21 | La Plena de Paquito Ceniera | Para Todos Ustedes | Smithsonian Folkways |
| The John Santos Sextet | La Rumba Me LLeva | Filosofia Caribena vol 1 | Machete Records |
| Ghasem Batamuntu & The Nu Nova Compound (w/Poet Curtis Lyles) | Nu Finitude, for Kwa Kwa | A Gift From Trane | Tahoe Records |
| John Handy | Spanish Lady | Live @ The Monterey Jazz Festival | Koch Jazz |
| Descarga Boricua | Decarga Boricua | Sus Mejores Exitos | RMM Records |
| Gregory Porter | 1960 What? | Water | Motema |
