6th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2011
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Fred Cisterna (Signal to Noise, iTunes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Aaron Goldberg & Guillermo Klein, Bienestan (Sunnyside)
  2. Paul Motian, The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter)
  3. David Murray, Plays Nat King Cole: En Español (Motéma)
  4. Amir ElSaffar, Inana (Pi)
  5. Muhal Richard Abrams, SoundDance (Pi)
  6. Claudia Quintet + 1, What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)
  7. Gerald Wilson, Legacy (Mack Avenue)
  8. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  9. [Bob Belden], Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (E1)
  10. Taylor Ho Bynum, Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  2. Oscar Aleman, Ritmo Loco: El Rey de la Guitarra Swing (Saga Jazz)
  3. Jazz à la Gitane: Bands of Gypsies (Gitane)

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Troy Collins (All About Jazz, Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. FAB Trio, History of Jazz in Reverse (TUM)
  2. Roscoe Mitchell, Before There Was Sound (Nessa)
  3. Gerry Hemingway, Riptide (Clean Feed)
  4. Taylor Ho Bynum, Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)
  5. Darren Johnston, The Big Lift (Porto Franco)
  6. Joel Harrison, The Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside)
  7. Nicole Mitchell, Awakening (Delmark)
  8. Darius Jones, Big Gurl (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  10. David S. Ware-Cooper-Moore-William Parker-Muhammad Ali, Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  2. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)
  3. Heiner Stadler, Tribute to Bird and Monk (Labor)

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Thomas Conrad

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  2. Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri, Athens Concert (ECM)
  3. [Bob Belden], Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (E1)
  4. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  5. Brad Mehldau, Live in Marciac (Nonesuch)
  6. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  7. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  8. Chris Byars, Lucky Strikes Again (SteepleChase)
  9. Colin Vallon, Rruga (ECM)
  10. Dino Saluzzi-Anja Lechner-Felix Saluzzi, Navidad de los Andes (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Art Pepper, Blues for the Fisherman (Unreleased Art, Volume VI) (Widow's Taste)
  3. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)

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J.D. Considine (The Globe and Mail, Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  2. Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo, Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music)
  3. Kenny Wheeler, One of Many (CAM Jazz)
  4. Brad Mehldau, Live in Marciac (Nonesuch)
  5. Phil Dwyer, Changing Seasons (Alma)
  6. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  7. Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic Project (Concord)
  8. Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran, Cuban Rhapsody (Alma)
  9. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  10. Arturo O'Farrill, 40 Acres and Burro (Zoho)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Dinah Washington, The Fabulous Miss D!: The Keynote, Decca and Mercury Singles 1943-1953 (Verve)
  3. Frank Sinatra & Count Basie, The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings (Concord Jazz/Frank Sinatra)

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Owen Cordle (JazzTimes, The News & Observer)

NEW RELEASES

  1. The Cookers, Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin Music)
  2. Frank Macchia, Son of Folk Songs for Jazzers (Cacophony)
  3. Tom Harrell, Time of the Sun (HighNote)
  4. Lynne Arriale, Convergence (Motéma)
  5. Deep Blue Organ Trio, Wonderful! (Origin)
  6. Jack Wilkins, The Blue & Green Project (Summit)
  7. Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo, Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music)
  8. Nancy Marano, Magic (Laughing Face)
  9. Ali Ryerson, ConBrio! (ACR)
  10. Eric Alexander, Don't Follow the Crowd (High Note)

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Michael Coyle (WRCU, Colgate University)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rich Halley, Requiem For a Pit Viper (Pine Eagle)
  2. David Murray, Plays Nat King Cole: En Español (Motéma)
  3. Carlo Actis Dato, Domestic Rehearsals (Actis Dato/Rocco)
  4. CIMPfest, Live in Villach 2009 (CIMP)
  5. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed)
  6. Dead Cat Bounce, Chance Encounters (Cuneiform)
  7. FAB Trio, History of Jazz in Reverse (TUM)
  8. Yoko Miwa, Live at Scullers (self-released)
  9. Andrew Lamb, Hues of Destiny (CIMP)
  10. Joan Stiles, Three Musicians (Oo-Bla-Dee)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Tyler, Eastern Man Alone (ESP-Disk)
  2. Sun Ra, College Tour Vol. 1 The Complete Nothing Is . . . (ESP-Disk)
  3. Sun Ra, The Heliocentic Worlds (ESP-Disk)

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Francis Davis (Village Voice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dave Douglas, Three Views: Greenleaf Portable Series Volumes 1-3 (Greenleaf Music)
  2. James Carter, Caribbean Rhapsody (Emarcy)
  3. Tony Malaby, Tony Malaby's Novela (Clean Feed)
  4. Trio M, The Guest House (Enja)
  5. Roswell Rudd, Incredible Honk (Sunnyside)
  6. Jason Kao Hwang, Symphony of Souls (Mulatta)
  7. Nice Guy Trio, Sidewalks and Alleys/Waking Music (Porto Franco)
  8. Ellery Eskelin, New York (Prime Source)
  9. JD Allen, Victory! (Sunnyside)
  10. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp, Cosmic Lieder (AUM Fidelity)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)
  3. Aretha Franklin, Take a Look: Complete on Columbia (Columbia/Legacy)

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Steve Dollar (Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David S. Ware-Cooper-Moore-William Parker-Muhammad Ali, Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Darius Jones, Big Gurl (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  4. Andy Statman, Old Brooklyn (Jazz Project)
  5. Weasel Walter-Mary Halvorson-Peter Evans, Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear)
  6. Kris Davis, Aeriol Piano (Clean Feed)
  7. Harris Eisenstadt, September Trio (Clean Feed)
  8. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp, Cosmic Lieder (AUM Fidelity)
  9. David Murray, Plays Nat King Cole: En Español (Motéma)
  10. Taylor Ho Bynum, Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)

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Laurence Donohue-Greene (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Dixon, Envoi (Victo)
  2. Other Dimensions in Music & Fay Victor, Kaiso Stories (Silkheart)
  3. Michael Bates, Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside)
  4. Adam Rudolph, Both/And (Meta)
  5. Darius Jones, Big Gurl (AUM Fidelity)
  6. Tony Malaby, Tony Malaby's Novela (Clean Feed)
  7. RED Trio & John Butcher, Empire (NoBusiness)
  8. Soren Kjaergaard-Ben Street-Andrew Cyrille, Femlkang (ILK)
  9. Georg Ruby & Michel Pilz, Deuxième Bureau (JazzHaus Musik)
  10. Bad Luck, Two (Table & Chairs)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  2. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)
  3. Randy Weston, Blue Moses (CTI/Masterworks Jazz)

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Alain Drouot (Downbeat, WNUR-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  2. Darius Jones, Big Gurl (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Tirtha (ACT)
  4. Rob Brown, Unknown Skies (Rogue Art)
  5. The Dorf, Le Record (Leo)
  6. Led Bib, Bring Your Own (Cuneiform)
  7. Jim Black-Trevor Dunn-Oscar Noriega-Chris Speed, Endangered Blood (Skirl)
  8. BassDrumBone, The Other Parade (Clean Feed)
  9. Weasel Walter-Mary Halvorson-Peter Evans, Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear)
  10. Trio 3 + Geri Allen, Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Intakt)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)
  2. Lol Coxhill, Instant Replay (Nato)
  3. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)

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Ken Dryden (The New York City Jazz Record, Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Denny Zeitlin, Labyrinth (Sunnyside)
  2. Bill Evans, The Sesjun Radio Shows (Out of the Blue)
  3. Bill Anschell, Figments (Origin)
  4. Rufus Reid, Hues of a Different Blue (Motéma)
  5. Marcus Printup, A Time For Love (SteepleChase)
  6. Monty Alexander, Uplift (Jazz Legacy)
  7. Storms/Nocturnes [Geoff Keezer-Joe Locke-Tim Garland], VIA (Origin)
  8. Dave Brubeck, Their Last Time Out (Columbia/Legacy)
  9. Benny Green, Source (Jazz Legacy)
  10. Ken Peplowski, In Search Of . . . (Capri)

REISSUES

  1. Modern Jazz Quartet, The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Bill Smith & Enrico Pieranunzi, The Rome Sessions (Edipan)
  3. Jean-Luc Ponty, Open Strings (Promising Music)

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Donald Elfman (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jane Ira Bloom, Wingwalker (Outline)
  2. Donny McCaslin, Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf Music)
  3. Lynne Arriale, Convergence (Motéma)
  4. Roy Haynes, Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
  5. Sean Jones, No Need for Words (Mack Avenue)
  6. Eric Reed, The Dancing Monk (Savant)
  7. Rez Abbasi, Suno Suno (Enja)
  8. Vijay Iyer, Tirtha (ACT)
  9. Ellery Eskelin & Gerry Hemingway, Inbetween Spaces (Auricle)
  10. [Bob Belden], Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (E1)

REISSUES

  1. Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Curtis Fuller, Cabin in the Sky/Soul Trombone (Impulse)
  3. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Steve Feeney (Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  2. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  3. Brad Mehldau, Live in Marciac (Nonesuch)
  4. Dave Douglas, Brass Ecstasy at Newport (Greenleaf Music)
  5. Christian McBride, Conversations With Christian (Mack Avenue)
  6. John Zorn, Nova Express (Tzadik)
  7. Keith Jarrett, Rio (ECM)
  8. Ingrid Laubrock, The Madness of Crowds (Intakt)
  9. Amir ElSaffar, Inana (Pi)
  10. Bill McHenry, Ghosts of the Sun (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Brad Mehldau, The Art of the Trio: Recordings 1996-2001 (Nonesuch)
  2. Art Blakey, Ugetsu: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at Birdland (Riverside)
  3. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Sean Fitzell (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. BB & C, The Veil (Cryptogramophone)
  2. Lukas Ligeti, Pattern Time (Innova)
  3. Cuong Vu, Leaps of Faith (Origin)
  4. Jeff Gauthier, Open Source (Cryptogramophone)
  5. Jim Black-Trevor Dunn-Oscar Noriega-Chris Speed, Endangered Blood (Skirl)
  6. Tim Kuhl, Doomsayer (self-released)
  7. Tim Berne, Insomnia (Clean Feed)
  8. Operation ID, Legs (Table & Chairs)
  9. Ben Allison, Action-Refraction (Palmetto)
  10. Agogic, Agogic (Table & Chairs)

REISSUES

  1. Ellery Eskelin, One Great Day (Hatology)

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Colin Fleming (The Atlantic, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri, Athens Concert (ECM)
  2. Paul Motian, The Windmills of Your Mind (Winter & Winter)
  3. The Cookers, Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin Music)
  4. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  5. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  6. Gary Burton, Common Ground (Mack Avenue)
  7. Kurt Elling, The Gate (Concord)
  8. Joshua Redman-Aaron Parks-Matt Penman-Eric Harland, James Farm (Nonesuch)
  9. Eric Reed, The Dancing Monk (Savant)
  10. Mike Garson, The Bowie Variations (Reference)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Modern Jazz Quartet, The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings (Mosaic)

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Ken Franckling (JazzTimes, Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kenny Werner, Balloons (Half Note)
  2. Julian Lage, Gladwell (Emarcy)
  3. Bill O'Connell, Rhapsody in Blue (Challenge)
  4. Lynne Arriale, Convergence (Motéma)
  5. The Cookers, Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin Music)
  6. Brian Lynch, Unsung Heroes (Holistic MusicWorks)
  7. Gretchen Parlato, The Lost and Found (ObliqSound)
  8. Fred Hersch, Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
  9. Roberto Magris, Morgan Rewind: A Tribute to Lee Morgan, Vol. 1 (J Mood)
  10. Yellowjackets, Timeline (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Jaco Pastorius, The 60th Anniversary Collection (Warner Music Japan)

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David Fricke (Rolling Stone)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  2. David S. Ware-Cooper-Moore-William Parker-Muhammad Ali, Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Harold O'Neal, Marvelous Fantasy (Smalls)
  4. 3 Cohens, Family (Anzic)
  5. Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri, Athens Concert (ECM)
  6. Tyshawn Sorey, Oblique-1 (Pi)
  7. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed)
  8. Farmers by Nature, Out of This World's Distortions (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Arrive [Aram Shelton], There Was . . . (Clean Feed)
  10. Noah Haidu, Slipstream (Posi-Tone)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Stan Getz, Quintets: The Clef & Norgran Studio Albums (Hip-O-Select)
  3. First Impulse!: The Creed Taylor Collectionb 50th Anniversary (Verve)

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Will Friedwald (Wall Street Journal)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Richard Gehr (Village Voice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kermit Driscoll, Reveille (19/8)
  2. Abdullah Ibrahim, Sotho Blue (Sunnyside)
  3. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Race Riot Suite (The Royal Potato Family)
  4. Steve Coleman, The Mancy of Sound (Pi)
  5. Orchestre National de Jazz & John Hollenbeck, Shut Up and Dance (Bee Jazz)
  6. Wadada Leo Smith, Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform)
  7. David Murray, Plays Nat King Cole: En Español (Motéma)
  8. Ben Allison, Action-Refraction (Palmetto)
  9. Fred Ho, The Sweet Science Suite (Mutable)
  10. Jeremy Udden, If the Past Seems So Bright (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Ornette Coleman, Free Jazz (Atlantic)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. Dinah Washington, The Fabulous Miss D!: The Keynote, Decca and Mercury Singles 1943-1953 (Verve)

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Albert Gilbert (San Jose Mercury-News, JazzTimes, Boston Globe)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kenny Werner, Balloons (Half Note)
  2. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  3. FAB Trio, History of Jazz in Reverse (TUM)
  4. JD Allen, Victory! (Sunnyside)
  5. Aaron Goldberg & Guillermo Klein, Bienestan (Sunnyside)
  6. Joan Stiles, Three Musicians (Oo-Bla-Dee)
  7. Andrew Cyrille, Route de Freres (TUM)
  8. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  9. Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo, Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music)
  10. Brian Carpenter, Hothouse Stomp (Accurate)

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Ted Gioia

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joshua Redman-Aaron Parks-Matt Penman-Eric Harland, James Farm (Nonesuch)
  2. Fred Hersch, Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  4. Keith Jarrett, Rio (ECM)
  5. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  6. Adam Cruz, Milestone (Sunnyside)
  7. Pat Metheny, What's It All About (Nonesuch)
  8. Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri, Athens Concert (ECM)
  9. Chick Corea & Stefano Bollani, Orvieto (ECM)
  10. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)

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