Mary Halvorson, Orquesta Akokan, Danfis Prieto, Lina Allemano’s Titanium Riot, Greg Spero (with an illustrarion of 17/16 metre), Elio Villafranca, Renee Rosnes, Francois Moutin & Kavita Shaw, and Fred Hersch.  All talked about in either the May and June, 2018 issues of Downbeat.  I also talk a bit about the Downbeat Critics Poll and play something from the very first “Album of the Year”—from 1965.