My picks for 2019... in no particular order. Great music. 

James Brandon Lewis- An UnRuly Manifesto (Relative Pitch)

Brent Birckhead- BIRCKHEAD (Revive Music)

Baczkowski, Lopez, Corsano- Old Smoke (Relative Pitch)

Joel Ross- Kingmaker (Blue Note)

Cyrille Aimée- Move On: A Sondheim Adventure (Mack Avenue)

Jacky Terrasson- 53 (Blue Note)

Monty Alexander- Wareika Hill: Rastamonk Vibrations (MACD)