7th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2012
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David R. Adler (JazzTimes, The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tim Berne, Snakeoil (ECM)
  2. Matt Wilson, An Attitude for Gratitude (Palmetto)
  3. Darius Jones, Book of Mæ'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) (AUM Fidelity)
  4. Fly, Year of the Snake (ECM)
  5. Orrin Evans, Flip the Script (Posi-Tone)
  6. Nik Bärtsch, Live (ECM)
  7. Hafez Modirzadeh, Post-Chromodal Out (Pi)
  8. Linda Oh, Initial Here (Greenleaf)
  9. Gregory Porter, Be Good (Motéma)
  10. Josh Ginsburg, Zembla Variations (BJU)

REISSUES

  1. John Kirby, Biggest Little Band in the Land (Classic Jazz Records)
  2. Paul Winter, Count Me In 1962-1963 (Living Music)
  3. Steve Kuhn, Life's Magic (Sunnyside)

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Scott Albin (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fred Hersch, Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
  2. Kenny Garrett, Seeds From the Underground (Mack Avenue)
  3. Chick Corea & Gary Burton, Hot House (Concord)
  4. Hristo Vitchev & Weber Iago, Heartmony (First Orbit Sounds)
  5. Pat Metheny, Unity Band (Nonesuch)
  6. Virginia Mayhew, Mary Lou Williams--The Next 100 Years (Renma)
  7. Branford Marsalis, Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)
  8. Ben Powell, New Street (Ben Powell)
  9. Steve Kuhn-Steve Swallow-Joey Baron, Wisteria (ECM)
  10. Joey DeFrancesco, Wonderful! Wonderful! (HighNote)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Coleman Hawkins, Classic Sessions 1922-1947 (Mosaic)
  3. Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis & Johnny Griffin, Tough Tenors Again 'N' Again (Promising)

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Clifford Allen (The New York City Jazz Record, Ni Kantu)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Gayle, Streets (Northern Spy)
  2. William Parker, Centering: Unreleased Early Recordings 1976-1987 (NoBusiness)
  3. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  4. David S. Ware, Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011 (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Nate Wooley, The Almond (Pogus)
  6. Jason Stein, The Story This Time (Delmark)
  7. The Thing With Barry Guy, Metal! (NoBusiness)
  8. Mike Reed, Clean on the Corner (482 Music)
  9. Lol Coxhill/Barre Phillips/J.T. Bates, The Rock on the Hill (Nato)
  10. Mick Barr-Kevin Shea-Tim Dahl, BarrSheaDahl (ugEXPLODE)

REISSUES

  1. Steve Lacy, The Sun (Emanem)
  2. Don Cherry, Organic Music Society (Caprice)
  3. Henry P. Warner-Earl Freeman-Philip Spigner, The Freestyle Band (NoBusiness)

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A.D. Amorosi (Philadelphia Inquirer, Blurt)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dave Douglas, Be Still (Greenleaf)
  2. Pat Martino, Alone Together (HighNote)
  3. Jan Garbarek-Egberto Gismonti-Charlie Haden, Magico: Carta de Amor (ECM)
  4. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  5. Brad Mehldau, Ode (Nonesuch)
  6. Lee Konitz-Bill Frisell-Gary Peacock-Joey Baron, Enfants Terribles (Half Note)
  7. John Zorn, Concealed (Tzadik)
  8. Joey DeFrancesco, Wonderful! Wonderful! (HighNote)
  9. Bad Plus, Made Possible (Entertainment One)
  10. Michael Formanek, Small Places (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Tito Puente, Quatro: The Definitive Collection (Sony)
  2. Louis Armstrong, Satchmo at Symphony Hall 65th Anniversary: The Complete Performances (Verve)
  3. Clifford Brown, The EmArcy Master Takes, Vol. 2: The Singers Sessions (Hip-O Select)

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Larry Appelbaum (JazzTimes, WPFW-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Luciana Souza, Book of Chet (Sunnyside)
  2. Billy Hart, All Our Reasons (ECM)
  3. David Virelles, Continuum (Pi)
  4. Branford Marsalis, Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)
  5. Esperanza Spalding, Radio Music Society (Heads Up)
  6. Brad Mehldau, Where Do You Start (Nonesuch)
  7. Gerald Wilson, Legacy (Mack Avenue)
  8. Keith Jarrett-Jan Garbarek-Palle Danielsson-Jon Christensen, Sleeper (ECM)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  10. Sara Serpa & Ran Blake, Aurora (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Duke Ellington, The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection 1951-1958 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)
  3. Joe Harriott, The Joe Harriott Story (Proper)

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Hrayr Attarian (Jazziz, Chicago Jazz Magazine)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  2. Tia Fuller, Angelic Warrior (Mack Avenue)
  3. Amina Figarova, Twelve (In+Out)
  4. Sara Serpa & Ran Blake, Aurora (Clean Feed)
  5. Nicole Mitchell, Arc of O (RogueArt)
  6. Hafez Modirzadeh, Post-Chromodal Out (Pi)
  7. Billy Hart, All Our Reasons (ECM)
  8. Iris Ornig, No Restrictions (Iris Ornig)
  9. Alisha's Quartet, Along for the Ride (DIY)
  10. Positive Catastrophe, Dibrujo, Dibrujo, Dibrujo (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Don Pullen, The Complete Remastered Black Saint Recordings (Black Saint)
  2. Pharoah Sanders, In the Beginning 1963-64 (ESP-Disk)
  3. Marion Brown, Sweet Earth Flying/Geechee Reflections (Impulse)

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Chris Barton (Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  2. Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola, Not Getting Behind Is the New Getting Ahead (self-released)
  3. Neneh Cherry & The Thing, The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Superjazz)
  4. Billy Hart, All Our Reasons (ECM)
  5. Robert Glasper, Black Radio (Blue Note)
  6. Living by Lanterns, New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform)
  7. E.S.T. [Esbjörn Svensson Trio], 301 (ACT)
  8. Brad Mehldau, Where Do You Start (Nonesuch)
  9. Jenny Scheinman, Mischief & Mayhem (Jenny Scheinman Music)
  10. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)

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Angelika Beener (Alternate Takes blog, Downbeat, Next Bop)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Gregory Porter, Be Good (Motéma)
  2. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Star of Jupiter (Wommusic)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  4. Mike Moreno, Another Way (World Culture Music)
  5. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)
  6. Lionel Loueke, Heritage (Blue Note)
  7. Orrin Evans, Flip the Script (Posi-Tone)
  8. Brad Mehldau, Where Do You Start (Nonesuch)
  9. Marcus Miller, Renaissance (Concord)
  10. Christian Scott, Christian aTunde Adjuah (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. Woody Shaw, The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Dave Brubeck, The Columbia Studio Albums Collection 1955-1966 (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Charlie Christian, The Genius of the Electric Guitar (Columbia/Legacy)

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Bill Beuttler (JazzTimes, Emerson College)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Omer Avital, Suite of the East (Anzic)
  2. Brad Mehldau, Where Do You Start (Nonesuch)
  3. Jack DeJohnette, Sound Travels (Entertainment One)
  4. Guillermo Klein, Carrera (Sunnyside)
  5. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  6. Stefon Harris-David Sánchez-Christian Scott, Ninety Miles: Live at Cubadisco (Concord Picante)
  7. Miguel Zenón & Laurent Coq, Rayuela (Sunnyside)
  8. Dave Douglas, Be Still (Greenleaf)
  9. Bad Plus, Made Possible (Entertainment One)
  10. Lionel Loueke, Heritage (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus, The Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection (Columbia/RCA/Legacy)
  2. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)
  3. Thelonious Monk, The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection (Columbia/Legacy)

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Nick Bewsey (Icon Magazine, JazzInSpace)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Gregory Porter, Be Good (Motéma)
  2. Ahmad Jamal, Blue Moon (JazzVillage)
  3. Ryan Truesdell, Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans (ArtistShare)
  4. Melissa Stylianou, Silent Movie (Anzic)
  5. Marc Johnson & Eliane Elias, Swept Away (ECM)
  6. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  7. Yosvany Terry, Today's Opinion (Criss Cross)
  8. Orrin Evans, Flip the Script (Posi-Tone)
  9. Fred Hersch, Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
  10. Jesse Davis, Live at Smalls (Smalls Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)

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Larry Birnbaum (Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Don Byron, Love, Peace, and Soul (Savoy Jazz)
  2. Chano Dominguez, Flamenco Sketches (Blue Note)
  3. Neneh Cherry & The Thing, The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Superjazz)
  4. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  5. Matthew Shipp, Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear)
  6. Henry Threadgill, Tomorrow and Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  7. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  8. Billy Hart, All Our Reasons (ECM)
  9. JD Allen, The Matador and the Bull (Savant)
  10. Frank Lowe, The Loweski (ESP-Disk)

REISSUES

  1. Pharoah Sanders, In the Beginning 1963-64 (ESP-Disk)
  2. Don Cherry, Organic Music Society (Caprice)
  3. Miles Davis, The Very Best of the Miles Davis Quintet (Prestige)

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Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal, Blu Notes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  2. Henry Threadgill, Tomorrow and Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  3. Yosvany Terry, Today's Opinion (Criss Cross)
  4. Ralph Peterson, The Duality Perspective (Onyx)
  5. Dave Douglas, Be Still (Greenleaf)
  6. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  7. Miguel Zenón & Laurent Coq, Rayuela (Sunnyside)
  8. JD Allen, The Matador and the Bull (Savant)
  9. William Parker, Centering: Unreleased Early Recordings 1976-1987 (NoBusiness)
  10. Charlie Haden & Hank Jones, Come Sunday (Decca)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)
  2. Don Pullen, The Complete Remastered Black Saint Recordings (Black Saint)
  3. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 50th Anniversary Collection (Columbia/Legacy)

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Bob Blumenthal (Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  2. Jacob Garchik, The Heavens (Yestereve)
  3. Tim Berne, Snakeoil (ECM)
  4. Mary Halvorson, Bending Bridges (Firehouse 12)
  5. Henry Threadgill, Tomorrow and Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  6. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)
  7. Gary Smulyan, Smul's Paradise (Capri)
  8. Fred Hersch, Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
  9. John Abercrombie, Within a Song (ECM)
  10. Guillermo Klein, Carrera (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Roscoe Mitchell, Old/Quartet Sessions (Nessa -11)
  2. Clare Fischer, Extension (International Phonograph)
  3. Terje Rypdal, Odyssey: In Studio & In Concert (ECM)

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Philip Booth (JazzTimes, Downbeat, Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tom Harrell, Number Five (HighNote)
  2. Gonzalo Rubalcaba, XXI Century (5Passion)
  3. Anat Cohen, Claroscuro (Anzic)
  4. Pat Metheny, Unity Band (Nonesuch)
  5. Kenny Wheeler, The Long Waiting (CAM Jazz)
  6. Eric Reed, The Baddest Monk (Savant)
  7. Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet, Into the Air (Ear Up)
  8. Kurt Elling, 1619 Broadway (Concord)
  9. Duduka Da Fonseca, Samba Jazz -- Jazz Samba (Anzic)
  10. Lionel Loueke, Heritage (Blue Note)

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Michael Bourne (WBGO)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matt Wilson, An Attitude for Gratitude (Palmetto)
  2. Anat Cohen, Claroscuro (Anzic)
  3. Branford Marsalis, Four MFs Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)
  4. Chano Dominguez, Flamenco Sketches (Blue Note)
  5. Ahmad Jamal, Blue Moon (JazzVillage)
  6. Steve Kuhn-Steve Swallow-Joey Baron, Wisteria (ECM)
  7. Kate McGarry, Girl Talk (Palmetto)
  8. Gregory Porter, Be Good (Motéma)
  9. Arturo Sandoval, Dear Diz (Concord)
  10. Chick Corea & Gary Burton, Hot House (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. Tony Bennett, The Complete Collection (Columbia)

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Shaun Brady (JazzTimes, Philadelphia Inquirer)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  2. Tim Berne, Snakeoil (ECM)
  3. Steve Lehman, Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)
  4. Jon Irabagon, Unhinged (Irabbagast)
  5. John Abercrombie, Within a Song (ECM)
  6. Darius Jones, Book of Mæ'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise) (AUM Fidelity)
  7. Matt Wilson, An Attitude for Gratitude (Palmetto)
  8. Fred Hersch, Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
  9. Chick Corea-Eddie Gomez-Paul Motian, Further Explorations (Concord Jazz)
  10. Jacob Garchik, The Heavens (Yestereve)

REISSUES

  1. Steve Lacy, Estilhaços: Steve Lacy Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed)
  2. Clare Fischer, Extension (International Phonograph)

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Marcella Breton (JJA)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Evans, Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate (Resonance)
  2. Dexter Gordon, Night Ballads Montreal 1977 (Uptown)
  3. Hank Mobley, Newark 1953 (Uptown)
  4. Harry Allen & Scott Hamilton, Round Midnight (Challenge)
  5. J. J. Oliveros, El Jilguero de Centro Habana (Lujuria Music)
  6. Lauren Sevian, Blueprint (CD Baby)
  7. Jesse Davis, Live at Smalls (Smalls Jazz)
  8. Miguel Zenón & Laurent Coq, Rayuela (Sunnyside)
  9. Anat Cohen, Claroscuro (Anzic)
  10. Ralph Lalama, Live at Smalls (Smalls Live)

REISSUES

  1. Coleman Hawkins, Classic Sessions 1922-1947 (Mosaic)
  2. Tito Puente, Quatro: The Definitive Collection (Sony)
  3. Joao Gilberto, The Roots of Bossa Nova (Chrome Dreams)

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Stuart Broomer (The New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform)
  2. Ames Room, Bird Dies (Clean Feed)
  3. Hafez Modirzadeh, Post-Chromodal Out (Pi)
  4. John Butcher, Bell Trove Spools (Northern Spy)
  5. 6ix, Almost Even Further (Leo)
  6. Ned Rothenberg, World of Odd Harmonics (Tzadik)
  7. Bill Evans, Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate (Resonance)
  8. Rodrigo Amado & Jeb Bishop, Burning Live at Jazz ao Centro (JACC)
  9. Jason Adasiewicz, Spacer (Delmark)
  10. Eve Risser-Benjamin Duboc-Edward Perraud, En Corps (Dark Tree)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)
  2. Peter Brötzmann-Fred Van Hove-Han Bennink, Hanns Eisler: Einheitsfrontlied (Cien Fuegos)
  3. Coleman Hawkins, Classic Sessions 1922-1947 (Mosaic)

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John Chacona (Signal to Noise; Erie, PA Times-News)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Accelerando (ACT)
  2. Steve Lehman, Dialect Fluorescent (Pi)
  3. Living by Lanterns, New Myth/Old Science (Cuneiform)
  4. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  5. Omer Avital, Suite of the East (Anzic)
  6. Henry Threadgill, Tomorrow and Sunny/The Revelry, Spp (Pi)
  7. Miles Okazaki, Figurations (Sunnyside)
  8. Theo Bleckmann, Hello Earth! (The Music of Kate Bush) (Winter & Winter)
  9. Russ Lossing, Drum Music (Sunnyside)
  10. Masabumi Kikuchi, Sunrise (ECM)

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Alan Chase (The Wire, Portsmouth, NH)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sam Rivers-Dave Holland-Barry Altschul, Reunion: Live in New York (Pi)
  2. Keith Jarrett-Jan Garbarek-Palle Danielsson-Jon Christensen, Sleeper (ECM)
  3. Lewis Nash, The Highest Mountain (Cellar Live)
  4. Linda Oh, Initial Here (Greenleaf)
  5. Billy Hart, All Our Reasons (ECM)
  6. Ravi Coltrane, Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)
  7. Jeff Hamilton, Red Sparkle (Capri)
  8. Clarence Penn, Dali in Cobble Hill (Criss Cross)
  9. Joe Labarbera, Silver Streams (Jazz Compass)
  10. Jazz Soul Seven, Impressions of Curtis Mayfield (BFM)

REISSUES

  1. Dexter Gordon, The Complete Dexter Gordon Columbia Albums Collection (Sony/Legacy)
  2. Coleman Hawkins, Classic Sessions 1922-1947 (Mosaic)
  3. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Workshop Concerts: 1964-65 (Mosaic)

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