Wrapped in Rhythm Volume One is still the best jazz that we rank most highly this year and you can hear the singer at the fountainhead by the foot of the jazz rainbow - Tutu Puoane - in person at Ronnie Scott's on 30 May. We think - in a parallel lost-in-time dreamsville - of the chills we first got hearing Gregory Porter on '1960 What'. Scroll down for lots more

Click on each entry below for reviews and full listening links

10 Julieta Eugenio Stay Greenleaf Music

9 Dave Douglas Gifts Greenleaf Music

8 Fred Hersch Silent, Listening ECM

7 Gregory Groover Jr Lovabye Criss Cross

6 Ian Shaw and Tony Kofi An Adventurous Dream: The Music of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington At Pizza Express Live In London PX Records

5 John Surman Words Unspoken ECM

4 Shabaka Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace Impulse!

3 Julian Lage Speak To Me Blue Note

2 Amaro Freitas Y'Y Psychic Hotline

You and I

We are the keepers of dreams

We mould them into light beams

And weave them into life's seams

– Lebo Mashile

1 Tutu Puoane Wrapped In Rhythm Vol. 1 Soul Factory

A deeply stirring and powerful collection of songs from Belgium residing South African singer Tutu Puoane written in collaboration with her husband Belgian pianist Ewout Pierreux, produced by Larry Klein, themed around the poetry of Lebo Mashile whose In A Ribbon of Rhythm Puoane has long since found inspirational. Mashile's work tackles themes such as life in the new South Africa and dwells on such issues as the place of women within the societal fabric of the Rainbow Nation. Among the personnel are guest Larry Goldings whose Hammond organ sound pops up vividly on 'Illicit Love'. Puoane's voice lands tonally somewhere between that of Sibongile Khumalo and Dianne Reeves. Tutu Puoane, photo: via Bandcamp

• Earlier, the up-to-March best-of