Jazz Critics Poll: 2010

Ballots 2010 [4]: Kanzler - Milkowski

George Kanzler (Hot House, All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
  2. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
  3. Bruce Barth & Steve Wilson: Home (WASJS)
  4. Ryan Keberle: Heavy Dreaming (Alternate Side)
  5. Ted Nash & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Portrait in Seven Shades (JLCO)
  6. Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait (Blue Note)
  7. Geri Allen and Timeline: Live (Motema)
  8. Michael Dease: Grace (Jazz Legacy)
  9. Warren Vache & John Allred: Top Shelf (Arbors)
  10. Tim Warfield: A Sentimental Journey (Criss Cross)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  2. Abbey Lincoln: Through the Years (Hip-O Select)
  3. Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings (Mosaic)

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Fred Kaplan (Slate, Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  3. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  4. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  5. Ted Nash & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Portrait in Seven Shades (JLCO)
  6. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  7. Dave Douglas: Spark of Being: Burst (Greenleaf)
  8. Anat Fort: And If (ECM)
  9. The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1)
  10. Masada String Trio: Haborym: The Book of Angels, Vol. 16 (Tzadik)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  2. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)

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Larry Kart (Jazz in Search of Itself)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark)
  2. Warne Marsh: New York City Live (Riverworks)
  3. Jeb Bishop: 2009 (Better Animal)
  4. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  5. Keefe Jackson: Seeing You See (Clean Feed)
  6. Aram Shelton: Two Cities (Delmark)
  7. The Engines: Wire and Brass (Okka Disk)
  8. James Falzone: Lamentations (Allos)
  9. Rich Corpolongo: Get Happy (Delmark)
  10. Walt Weiskopf: See the Pyramid (Criss Cross)

REISSUES

  1. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)

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Mark Keresman (East Bay Express, Icon)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform)
  2. Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love: Milwaukee Volume (Smalltown Superjazz)
  3. Steve Turre: Delicious and Delightful (HighNote)
  4. Chet Baker: The Sesjun Radio Shows (Out of the Blue/T2)
  5. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
  6. Matt Wilson: Christmas Tree-O (Palmetto)
  7. Cochemea Gastelum: The Electric Sound of Johnny Arrow (Mowo/Hyena)
  8. Ralph Alessi: Cognitive Dissonance (CAM Jazz)
  9. Dave Liebman: Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Jazzwerkstatt)
  10. Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travellers (Accurate)

REISSUES

  1. Catalyst: The Complete Recordings, Vol.1 (Porter)
  2. Catalyst: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 2 (Porter)
  3. Gabor Szabo: Jazz Raga (Light in the Attic)

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Bill King (Ejazznews.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Clayton Brothers: The New Song and Dance (ArtistShare)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Billy Childs: Autumn: In Moving Pictures (ArtistShare)
  4. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  5. Tom Harrell: Roman Nights (High Note)
  6. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  8. Stefano Bollani: Stone in the Water (ECM)
  9. Trombone Shorty: Backatown (Verve Forecast)
  10. Terry Clarke: It's About Time (Blue Music Group)

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Elzy Kolb (Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jay Clayton: In and Out of Love (Sunnyside)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  3. Eri Yamamoto: In Each Day, Something Good (AUM Fidelity)
  4. Marc Cary: Focus Trio Live 2009 (Motema)
  5. Erica Lindsay & Sumi Tonooka: Initiation (ARC)
  6. Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock (Half Note)
  7. Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM)
  8. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
  9. Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released)

REISSUES

  1. Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Let's Call This . . . Esteem (SLAM-Silta)

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Art Lange (pointofdeparture.org, Fanfare)

NEW RELEASES

  1. New York Art Quartet: Old Stuff (Cuneiform)
  2. Fred Anderson: Black Horn Long Gone (Southport)
  3. : Summer Works 2009 (Emanem)
  4. Steve Lacy: November (Intakt)
  5. G9 Gipfel: Berlin (Jazzwerkstatt)
  6. Daniele D'Agaro-Alexander von Schlippenbach-Han Bennink: Fingerprints (Artesuono)
  7. Keefe Jackson: Seeing You See (Clean Feed)
  8. Scoolptures: Materiale Umano (Leo)
  9. Evan Parker: Set (Eminem)
  10. Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
  3. Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP-Disk)

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Will Layman (PopMatters; Soundcheck, WNYC-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  3. Jazz Passengers: Reunited (Justin Time)
  4. Mostly Other People Do the Killing Forty: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
  5. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  6. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  7. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)
  8. Matthew Shipp: 4D (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Rez Abbasi: Natural Selection (Sunnyside)
  10. Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

  1. Sonny Rollins: The Definitive Sonny Rollins on Prestige, Riverside & Contemporary (Concord)
  2. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Joe Pass: Virtuoso (Pablo)

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Devin Leonard (Bloomberg Businessweek, Capital New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Walter Smith III: III (Criss Cross)
  2. John Escreet: Don't Fight the Inevitable (Mythology)
  3. Kris Davis-Ingrid Laubrock-Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed)
  4. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  5. Lage Lund: Unlikely Stories (Criss Cross)
  6. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  7. Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait (Blue Note)
  8. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  9. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)
  10. Florian Ross: Mechanism (Pirouet)

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Aidan Levy (Village Voice, nytimes.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  2. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
  3. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  4. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  5. Steve Colson: The Untarnished Dream (Silver Sphinx)
  6. Dan Tepfer: Five Pedals Deep (Sunnyside)
  7. : Spiritual Lover (Clean Feed)
  8. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  9. John Ellis: Puppet Mischief (ObliqSound)
  10. Bill Frisell: Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Fela Kuti: The Best of the Black President (Kalakuta/Knitting Factory)
  2. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note (CAM Jazz)
  3. Art Pepper: Meets the Rhythm Section (Concord)

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John Litweiler (Chicago Sun-Times, Mojo Snake Minuet)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Muhal Richard Abrams & Roscoe Mitchell: Spectrum (Mutable)
  2. Fred Anderson: Black Horn Long Gone (Southport)
  3. Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark)
  4. Evan Parker: Whitstable Solo (Psi)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (Kabell)
  6. Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau (Intakt)
  7. Satoko Fujii: Zakopane (Libra)
  8. Geof Bradfield: African Flowers (Origin)
  9. Mike Reed: Empathetic Parts (482 Music)
  10. Nicole Mitchell: Emerald Hills (RogueArt)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)

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Martin Longley (BBC Music, Jazzwise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Scott Robinson-Marshall Allen-Pat O'Leary-Kevin Norton: Live at Space Farms (ScienSonic)
  2. Ross Bolleter: Night Kitchen (2002-2009) (Emanem)
  3. Lisa Mezzacappa: What Is Known (Clean Feed)
  4. Shining: Black Jazz (The End)
  5. Fight the Big Bull: All Is Gladness in the Kingdom (Clean Feed)
  6. Marc Edwards & Weasel Walter: Blood of the Earth (UgExplode)
  7. Mingus Big Band: Live at Jazz Standard (Jazz Workshop/Jazz Standard)
  8. Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM)
  9. Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
  10. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Let's Call This . . . Esteem (SLAM-Silta)

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Suzanne Lorge (All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dee Dee Bridgewater: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee (Emarcy)
  2. Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)
  3. Catherine Russell: Inside This Heart of Mine (World Village)
  4. Irene Kral: Second Chance (Jazzed Media)
  5. Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony (Blue Note)
  6. Gil Scott-Heron: I'm New Here (XL)
  7. Freddy Cole: Sings Mr. B (HighNote)
  8. Lorraine Feather: Ages (Jazzed Media)
  9. Denise Donatelli: When Lights Are Low (Savant)
  10. Stacey Kent: Raconte-moi . . . (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Abbey Lincoln: Golden Lady (Inner City)
  2. Fred "Sugar" Hall: Look Who's Here (Challenge)
  3. Chet Baker: It Could Happen to You (Concord)

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Kevin Lynch (youmews.com, nodepression.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  2. Denny Zeitlin: Precipice (Sunnyside)
  3. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  4. Geri Allen and Timeline: Live (Motema)
  5. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  6. Anat Fort: And If (ECM)
  7. Torben Waldorf: American Rock Beauty (ArtistShare)
  8. Bill Frisell: Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz)
  9. Liam Sillery: Phenomenology (OA2)
  10. Ellen Rowe: Wishing Well (PKO)

REISSUES

  1. Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings (Concord)
  2. Dave Douglas: Constellations (Hatology)
  3. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)

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Shaunna Morrison Machosky (WDUQ-FM [Pittsburgh, PA], NPR Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  2. Dana Hall: Into the Light (Origin)
  3. Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
  4. Eli Degibri: Israeli Song (Anzic)
  5. Rez Abbasi: Natural Selection (Sunnyside)
  6. Ted Nash & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Portrait in Seven Shades (JLCO)
  7. Pat Metheny: Orchestrion (Nonesuch)
  8. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
  9. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  10. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)

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Jim Macnie (Downbeat, Lament for a Straight Line)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  2. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
  3. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  4. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  5. Bill Carrothers: Joy Spring (Pirouet)
  6. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  7. Tarbaby: The End of Fear (Posi-Tone)
  8. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
  9. Steve Cardenas: West of Middle (Sunnyside)
  10. Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  3. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)

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Howard Mandel (JazzBeyondJazz [artsjournal.com], City Arts--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released)
  2. Bobby McFerrin: VOCAbuLaries (Emarcy)
  3. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  4. Dominic Duval & Cecil Taylor: The Last Dance (Cadence)
  5. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  6. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  7. Sam Newsome: Blue Soliloquy (Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone) (self-released)
  8. Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark)
  9. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman: Dual Identity (Clean Feed)
  10. Nicole Mitchell: Emerald Hills (RogueArt)

REISSUES

  1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP-Disk)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith: Spirit Catcher (Nessa)

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Peter Margasak (Chicago Reader, Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Evan Parker-Barry Guy-Paul Lytton-Peter Evans: Scenes in the House of Music (Clean Feed)
  3. John McNeil & Bill McHenry: Chill Morn He Climb Jenny (Sunnyside)
  4. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
  5. Atomic: Theater Tilters Vol. 1 (Jazzland)
  6. Atomic: Theater Tilters Vol. 2 (Jazzland)
  7. Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
  8. Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark)
  9. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  10. Jeb Bishop: 2009 (Better Animal)

REISSUES

  1. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
  2. Dinah Washington: The Fabulous Miss D! The Keynote, Decca and Mercury Singles 1943-1953 (Hip-O Select)
  3. Archie Shepp: New York Contemporary Five (Delmark)

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John McDonough (TK)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  3. Kenny Dorham: The Flamboyan, Queens, NY, 1963 (Uptown)
  4. Lee Konitz: Live at the Village Vanguard (Enja)
  5. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
  6. Clayton Brothers: The New Song and Dance (ArtistShare)
  7. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
  8. Bob Wilber: Is Here (Arbors)
  9. Barry Harris: Live in Rennes (Plus Loin)
  10. Marian Petrescu: Thrivin': Live at Jazz Standard (Resonance)

REISSUES

  1. Teddy Wilson: Solo, Trio, Quartet, Sextet & Big Band From 1939-1983 (Storyville)
  2. Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Let's Call This . . . Esteem (SLAM-Silta)

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Bill Milkowski (JazzTimes, Wolfgang's Vault)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  2. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  4. Howard Wiley: 12 Gates to the City (HNIC Music)
  5. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  6. Billy Childs: Autumn: In Moving Pictures (ArtistShare)
  7. Bill Frisell: Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz)
  8. Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM)
  9. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  10. Scott Colley: Empire (CAM Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  3. Bill Evans: Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings June 1980 (Nonesuch)

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