6th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2011
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Steve Greenlee (Boston Globe, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jacques Coursil, Trail of Tears (Sunnyside)
  2. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)
  3. Matana Roberts, Live in London (Central Control)
  4. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  5. Jamaaladeen Tacuma, For the Love of Ornette (Jazzwerkstatt)
  6. Donny McCaslin, Perpetual Motion (Greenleaf Music)
  7. The Four Bags, Forth (NCM)
  8. Landrus Kaleidoscope, Capsule (Blueland)
  9. JD Allen, Victory! (Sunnyside)
  10. Cinque, Catch a Corner (Alma)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Miles Davis, Bitches Brew Live (Sony/Legacy)
  3. Charlie Christian, Electric (Uptown)

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George Grella (thebigcityblog.com, ClassicalTV.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dan Tepfer, Goldberg Variations/Variations (Sunnyside)
  2. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  3. Arrive [Aram Shelton], There Was . . . (Clean Feed)
  4. Les Doigts de l'Homme, 1910 (Alma)
  5. Claudia Quintet + 1, What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)
  6. Honey Ear Trio, Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven)
  7. Allen Lowe, Blues and the Empirical Truth (Music & Arts)
  8. Wadada Leo Smith, Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform)
  9. Gerry Hemingway, Riptide (Clean Feed)
  10. Alon Nechustan, Words Beyond (Buckyball)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Sun Ra, Eternal Myth Revealed, Vol. 1 (Transparency)
  3. Alice Coltrane, Universal Consciousness/Lord of Lords (Impulse)

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Laurel Gross (The New York City Jazz Record, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  2. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  3. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  4. Enrico Pieranunzi, Plays Bach Handel Scarlatti, Works and Improvisations: 1685 (CAM Jazz)
  5. Brad Mehldau, Live in Marciac (Nonesuch)
  6. Dave Douglas, Brass Ecstasy at Newport (Greenleaf Music)
  7. Tom Harrell, Time of the Sun (HighNote)
  8. Eric Reed, Something Beautiful (WJ3)
  9. Russell Malone, Tripleplay (MaxJazz)
  10. JD Allen, Victory! (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Jim Hall, Concierto (CTI/Masterworks Jazz)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Monk's Music (OJC/Concord Jazz)
  3. Mary Lou Williams, At Rick's Café Americain (Storyville)

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Evan Haga (JazzTimes, NPR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  3. Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri, Athens Concert (ECM)
  4. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  5. Joshua Redman-Aaron Parks-Matt Penman-Eric Harland, James Farm (Nonesuch)
  6. Pilc Moutin Hoenig, Threedom (Motéma)
  7. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  8. Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton, Play the Blues (Reprise/JALC)
  9. Ben Allison, Action-Refraction (Palmetto)
  10. BB & C, The Veil (Cryptogramophone)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. Roscoe Mitchell, Old/Quartet Sessions (Nessa)

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James Hale (Downbeat, Signal to Noise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Marcus Strickland, Triumph of the Heavy, Volumes 1 & 2 (Strick Muzik)
  2. Carol Morgan, Blue Glass Music (Blue Bamboo Music)
  3. Denny Zeitlin, Labyrinth (Sunnyside)
  4. Erik Friedlander, Bonebridge (Skipstone)
  5. Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay, Danse à l'Anvers (Ambiances Magnétiques)
  6. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  7. Enrico Rava, Tribe (ECM)
  8. Nordic Connect, Spirals (ArtistShare)
  9. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  10. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Brad Mehldau, The Art of the Trio: Recordings 1996-2001 (Nonesuch)
  3. Dinah Washington, The Fabulous Miss D!: The Keynote, Decca and Mercury Singles 1943-1953 (Verve)

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Ed Hazell (Point of Departure, Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Other Dimensions in Music & Fay Victor, Kaiso Stories (Silkheart)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, Dark Lady of the Sonnets (TUM)
  3. Muhal Richard Abrams, SoundDance (Pi)
  4. Sam Rivers, Trilogy (Mosaic Select)
  5. Jason Kao Hwang, Crossroads Unseen (Euonymous)
  6. Hybrid 10tet [Michiel Braam], On the Move (BBB)
  7. Szilárd Mezei, Innen (Ayler)
  8. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp, Cosmic Lieder (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Ken Filiano, Dreams From a Clown Car (Clean Feed)
  10. Tony Malaby, Tony Malaby's Novela (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  2. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)
  3. Howard Riley, The Complete Short Stories 1998-2010 (NoBusiness)

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Don Heckman (The International Review of Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chick Corea-Stanley Clarke-Lenny White, Forever (Concord)
  2. Terell Stafford, This Side of Strayhorn (MaxJazz)
  3. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  4. Stefon Harris-Christian Scott-David Sanchez, Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)
  5. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  6. Tierney Sutton, American Road (BFM Jazz)
  7. Gerald Clayton, Bond: The Paris Sessions (Emarcy)
  8. Anthony Wilson, Campo Belo (Goat Hill)
  9. 3 Cohens, Family (Anzic)
  10. Giacomo Gates, The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant)

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. Thelonious Monk, Monk's Music (OJC/Concord Jazz)

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Alex Henderson (The New York City Jazz Record, All Music Guide)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Giacomo Gates, The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant)
  2. Chick Corea-Stanley Clarke-Lenny White, Forever (Concord)
  3. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  4. Roseanna Vitro, The Music of Randy Newman (Motéma)
  5. Al DiMeola, Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody (Telarc Jazz)
  6. Bad Plus, Never Stop (E1)
  7. Pat Murray & Mark Kieswetter, Ticket to Ride: The Beatles Book (University Health Network)
  8. James Carter, At the Crossroads (Emarcy)
  9. Nicole Mitchell, Awakening (Delmark)
  10. Judy Wexler, Under a Painted Sky (Jazzed Media)

REISSUES

  1. Wes Montgomery, Boss Guitar (OJC/Concord Jazz)
  2. Louis Armstrong, Intégrale Louis Armstrong, Vol. 9: Jeepers Creepers, 1938-1941 (Frémeaux & Associes)
  3. Thelonious Monk, Monk's Music (OJC/Concord Jazz)

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Tad Hendrickson (Wall Street Journal, Newark Star-Ledger, AOL Radio)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Binney, Graylen Epicenter (Mythology)
  2. Keith Jarrett, Rio (ECM)
  3. Gretchen Parlato, The Lost and Found (ObliqSound)
  4. Darius Jones, Big Gurl (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  6. Aaron Goldberg & Guillermo Klein, Bienestan (Sunnyside)
  7. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
  8. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  9. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  10. Claudia Quintet + 1, What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)

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Andrey Henkin (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Geoffrey Himes (JazzTimes, Washington Post, Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Frisell, Sign of Life: Music for 858 Quartet (Savoy Jazz)
  2. Vijay Iyer, Tirtha (ACT)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Samdhi (ACT)
  4. David Binney, Graylen Epicenter (Mythology)
  5. Orrin Evans, Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone)
  6. Dave Douglas, Rare Metals [Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 1] (Greenleaf Music)
  7. Pilc Moutin Hoenig, Threedom (Motéma)
  8. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Race Riot Suite (The Royal Potato Family)
  9. SFJazz Collective, Live in New York 2011: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions (SFJazz)
  10. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Bitches Brew Live (Sony/Legacy)
  2. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)

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Eugene Holley, Jr. (Allaboutjazz.com, The Crisis)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  2. Orrin Evans, Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Tirtha (ACT)
  4. Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri, Athens Concert (ECM)
  5. Ron Carter, Great Big Band (Sunnyside)
  6. Christian McBride, The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue)
  7. Deep Blue Organ Trio, Wonderful! (Origin)
  8. Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic Project (Concord)
  9. Stefon Harris-Christian Scott-David Sanchez, Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)
  10. Steve Coleman, The Mancy of Sound (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Randy Weston, Blue Moses (CTI/Masterworks Jazz)
  2. Modern Jazz Quartet, The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Joe Farrell, Outback (CTI/Masterworks Jazz)

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Lyn Horton (JazzTimes, The Paradigm for Beauty)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joe McPhee & Michael Zerang, Creole Gardens: A New Orleans Suite (NoBusiness)
  2. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith, Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform)
  4. William Parker, Crumbling in the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake (Centering)
  5. Daniel Levin, Organic Modernism (Clean Feed)
  6. Mary Halvorsen & Jessica Pavone, Departure of Reason (Thirsty Ear)
  7. Darius Jones, Big Gurl (AUM Fidelity)
  8. Rempis Percussion Quartet, Montreal Parade (482 Music)
  9. The Spanish Donkey, XYX (Northern Spy)
  10. Klang, Other Doors (Allos Documents)

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Tom Hull (Village Voice, tomhull.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dan Raphael-Rich Halley-Carson Halley, Children of the Blue Supermarket (Pine Eagle)
  2. Avram Fefer-Eric Revis-Chad Taylor, Eliyahu (Not Two)
  3. Allen Lowe, Blues and the Empirical Truth (Music & Arts)
  4. Muhal Richard Abrams, SoundDance (Pi)
  5. Matt Lavelle, Goodbye New York, Hello World (Musicnow)
  6. Abdullah Ibrahim, Sotho Blue (Sunnyside)
  7. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  8. Ellery Eskelin, New York (Prime Source)
  9. Ted Rosenthal, Out of this World (Playscape)
  10. De Nazaten & James Carter, For Now (Strotbrocck)

REISSUES

  1. Duke Ellington, Meets Coleman Hawkins/And John Coltrane (Impulse)
  2. Archie Shepp, For Losers/Kwanza (Impulse)
  3. Billy Bang, Black Man's Blues/New York Collage (NoBusiness)

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Peter Hum (The Ottawa Citizen, jazzblog.ca)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Adam Cruz, Milestone (Sunnyside)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  3. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  4. Bill Carrothers, A Night at the Village Vanguard (Pirouet)
  5. David Binney, Graylen Epicenter (Mythology)
  6. Ari Hoenig, Lines of Oppression (Naive)
  7. David Braid, Verge (self-released)
  8. Rez Abbasi, Suno Suno (Enja)
  9. Chris Dingman, Waking Dreams (Between Worlds)
  10. Joshua Redman-Aaron Parks-Matt Penman-Eric Harland, James Farm (Nonesuch)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Woody Shaw, The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Dexter Gordon, The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Columbia/Legacy)

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Robert Iannopolo (Cadence, The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Other Dimensions in Music & Fay Victor, Kaiso Stories (Silkheart)
  2. Jason Kao Hwang, Crossroads Unseen (Euonymous)
  3. Tony Malaby, Tony Malaby's Novela (Clean Feed)
  4. Samuel Blaser & Paul Motian, Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue)
  5. Muhal Richard Abrams, SoundDance (Pi)
  6. Amir ElSaffar, Inana (Pi)
  7. Ken Filiano, Dreams From a Clown Car (Clean Feed)
  8. Tyshawn Sorey, Oblique-1 (Pi)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith, Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform)
  10. Szilárd Mezei, Innen (Ayler)

REISSUES

  1. Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Billy Bang, Black Man's Blues/New York Collage (NoBusiness)
  3. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)

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Patrick Jarenwattananon (NPR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  2. Gretchen Parlato, The Lost and Found (ObliqSound)
  3. JD Allen, Victory! (Sunnyside)
  4. Noah Preminger, Before the Rain (Palmetto)
  5. Bill McHenry, Ghosts of the Sun (Sunnyside)
  6. Ben Allison, Action-Refraction (Palmetto)
  7. Joshua Redman-Aaron Parks-Matt Penman-Eric Harland, James Farm (Nonesuch)
  8. Orrin Evans, Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone)
  9. Brian Carpenter, Hothouse Stomp (Accurate)
  10. René Marie, Voice of My Beautiful Country (Motéma)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. Brad Mehldau, The Art of the Trio: Recordings 1996-2001 (Nonesuch)

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Willard Jenkins (The Independent Ear, WPFW 89.3 FM [Washington, DC])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic Project (Concord)
  2. Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton, Play the Blues (Reprise/JALC)
  3. JD Allen, Victory! (Sunnyside)
  4. Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri, Athens Concert (ECM)
  5. Terell Stafford, This Side of Strayhorn (MaxJazz)
  6. David Murray, Plays Nat King Cole: En Español (Motéma)
  7. Muhal Richard Abrams, SoundDance (Pi)
  8. SFJazz Collective, Live in New York 2011: Music of Stevie Wonder and New Compositions (SFJazz)
  9. Marcus Shelby, Soul of the Movement (Porto Franco)
  10. Jerry Gonzalez, Jerry Gonzalez Y El Commando de la Clavé (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Randy Weston, Blue Moses (CTI/Masterworks Jazz)
  3. Byron Morris, A Retrospective (By-Morr)

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Martin Johnson (Wall Street Journal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Michael Bates, Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside)
  2. Rez Abbasi, Suno Suno (Enja)
  3. Jen Shyu & Mark Dresser, Synasty (Pi)
  4. Bill McHenry, Ghosts of the Sun (Sunnyside)
  5. Michael Cain, Solo (Native Drum)
  6. Trio M, The Guest House (Enja)
  7. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  8. Steve Coleman, The Mancy of Sound (Pi)
  9. Vijay Iyer, Tirtha (ACT)
  10. Chris Dingman, Waking Dreams (Between Worlds)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Richard Kamins (Step Tempest)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Marcus Shelby, Soul of the Movement (Porto Franco)
  2. Ernesto Cervini, There (Anzic)
  3. Dan Tepfer, Goldberg Variations/Variations (Sunnyside)
  4. Alexis Cuadrado, Noneto Ibérico (BJU)
  5. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  6. David Binney, Barefooted Town (Criss Cross)
  7. Fred Hersch, Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
  8. Ben Kono, Crossing (1918 Records)
  9. Orrin Evans, Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone)
  10. Noah Preminger, Before the Rain (Palmetto)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  2. Charles Tolliver, Charles Tolliver Big Band (Mosaic Select)
  3. Gerry Mulligan, The Complete Verve Concert Jazz Band Sessions (Verve)

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George Kanzler (Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic Project (Concord)
  2. Tierney Sutton, American Road (BFM Jazz)
  3. David Binney, Graylen Epicenter (Mythology)
  4. Stefon Harris-Christian Scott-David Sanchez, Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)
  5. Fred Hersch, Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  7. Christian McBride, The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue)
  8. Jim Snidero, Interface (Savant)
  9. SFJazz Collective, Live 2010 7th Annual Concert Tour: The Works of Horace Silver and New Compositions (SFJazz)
  10. Falkner Evans, The Point of the Moon (CAP)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmie Lunceford, The Complete Decca Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Monk's Music (OJC/Concord Jazz)
  3. Art Blakey, Ugetsu: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at Birdland (Riverside)

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