Fifteen LP

Three heavyweights, one first studio date together: Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, and Dafnis Prieto cut Fifteen for Nonesuch, the first release for the label from each of them, years after they first sat in together at a 2012 Jazz Gallery fundraiser. Threadgill is a Chicago-born NEA Jazz Master and AACM veteran who won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Iyer holds a MacArthur Fellowship and teaches at Harvard. Prieto, born in Cuba, has a Grammy for Back to the Sunset. Credentials aside, this is a trio worth trusting on reputation alone.