8th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2013
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Tom Hull (tomhull.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Billy Martin's Wicked Knee, Heels Over Head (Amulet)
  2. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Slippery Rock (Hot Cup)
  3. The Group, Live (NoBusiness)
  4. Barbara Morrison, A Sunday Kind of Love (Savant)
  5. Roswell Rudd, Trombone for Lovers (Sunnyside)
  6. Revolutionary Ensemble, Counterparts (Mutable)
  7. Peter Evans, Zebulon (More Is More)
  8. Steve Coleman, Functional Arrythmias (Pi)
  9. Roscoe Mitchell, Duets With Tyshawn Sorey and Special Guest Hugh Ragin (Wide Hive)
  10. Ivo Perelman, Enigma (Leo)

REISSUES

  1. New York Art Quartet, Call It Art (Triple Point)
  2. Matthew Shipp, Greatest Hits (Thirsty Ear)
  3. Ornette Coleman, Friends and Neighbors: Ornette Live at Prince Street (Flying Dutchman/BGP)

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Peter Hum (The Ottawa Citizen, jazzblog.ca)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wayne Shorter, Without a Net (Blue Note)
  2. Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette, Somewhere (ECM)
  3. Christine Jensen, Habitat (Justin Time)
  4. John Hollenbeck, Songs I Like a Lot (Sunnyside)
  5. Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran, Hagar's Song (ECM)
  6. Ben Monder, Hydra (Sunnyside)
  7. John Escreet, Sabotage and Celebration (Whirlwind)
  8. Phil Nimmons & David Braid, Nimmons 'n' Braid (Independent)
  9. George Shearing, At Home (Jazzknight)
  10. Scott Hamilton, Swedish Ballads . . . and More (Charleston Square)

REISSUES

  1. Woody Shaw, The Complete Muse Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Paul Motian, Paul Motian (ECM)
  3. Paul Bley, Closer (ESP-Disk)

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

NEW RELEASES

  1. Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-uba, 30 Years: A Musical Celebration of Cuba in America (Advance Dance Disques)
  2. Terri Lyne Carrington, Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue (Concord)
  3. Wayne Shorter, Without a Net (Blue Note)
  4. Roberto Fonseca, Yo (Concord)
  5. Cécile McLorin Salvant, WomanChild (Mack Avenue)
  6. Nicole Mitchell, Aquarius (Delmark)
  7. Dave Holland, Prism (Dare 2)
  8. Albert "Tootie" Heath, Tootie's Tempo (Sunnyside)
  9. Allison Miller, No Morphine, No Lilies (Royal Potato Family)
  10. Oliver Lake, Wheels (Passin' Thru)

REISSUES

  1. Jack DeJohnette, Special Edition (ECM)
  2. Miles Davis, Original Mono Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Quartets (ECM)

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David Brent Johnson (WFIU-Bloomington, Indiana's Night Lights and Afterglow)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Warren Wolf, Wolfgang (Mack Avenue)
  2. Bryan Ferry, The Great Gatsby Jazz Recordings: A Selection of Yellow Cocktail Music (Water Tower)
  3. Duke Pearson, Baltimore 1969 (Uptown)
  4. Darcy James Argue, Brooklyn Babylon (New Amsterdam)
  5. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline)
  6. Dave Douglas, Time Travel (Greenleaf)
  7. Caswell Sisters, Alive in the Singing Air (Turtle Ridge)
  8. Gary Burton, Guided Tour (Mack Avenue)
  9. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Trios (ECM)
  10. Killer Ray Appleton, Naptown Legacy (Holistic Musicworks)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Woody Shaw, The Complete Muse Sessions (Mosaic)
  3. Various, Liberation Music: Spiritual Jazz and the Art of Protest on Flying Dutchman Records, 1969-1974 (BGP)

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Richard Kamins (Step Tempest)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nicky Schrire, Space and Time (self-released)
  2. Jamie Baum, In This Life (Sunnyside)
  3. Alexis Cuadrado, A Lorca Soundscape (Sunnyside)
  4. Tarbaby, The Ballad of Sam Langford (Hipnotic)
  5. Lorraine Feather, Attachments (Jazzed Media)
  6. Myra Melford, Life Carries Me This Way (Firehouse 12)
  7. Matthew Shipp, Piano Sutras (Thirsty Ear)
  8. Noah Preminger, Haymaker (Palmetto)
  9. Sam Sadigursky & Laurent Coq, Words Projects 3 (New Amsterdam)
  10. Wadada Leo Smith & Tumo, Occupy the World (TUM)

REISSUES

  1. S.O.S. [John Surman-Mike Osborne-Alan Skidmore], Looking for the Next One (Cuneiform)
  2. Nina Simone, Little Girl Blue (Bethelem)
  3. Albert Mangelsdorff, Live (SWR)

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George Kanzler (Hot House, The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ted Nash, Chakra (Plastic Sax)
  2. Dave Douglas, Time Travel (Greenleaf)
  3. Randy Weston & Billy Harper, The Roots of the Blues (Sunnyside)
  4. Matt Wilson, Gathering Call (Palmetto)
  5. Ryan Cohan, The River (Motéma)
  6. John Escreet, Sabotage and Celebration (Whirlwind)
  7. Michael Dease, Coming Home (Clef)
  8. Ken Peplowski, Maybe September (Capri)
  9. Steve Turre, The Bones of Art (HighNote)
  10. Tom Harrell, Colors of a Dream (HighNote)

REISSUES

  1. Herbie Hancock, The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Legacy)
  2. Charles Mingus, The Jazz Experiments of Charles Mingus (Bethlehem/Verse)
  3. Oscar Pettiford, Lost Tapes: Germany 1958/1959 (SWR Music)

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Fred Kaplan (Slate, Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dawn Upshaw & Maria Schneider, Winter Morning Walks (ArtistShare)
  2. Darcy James Argue, Brooklyn Babylon (New Amsterdam)
  3. Marc Cary, For the Love of Abbey (Motéma)
  4. William Parker, Wood Flute Songs (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Dave Douglas, Time Travel (Greenleaf)
  6. Steve Coleman, Functional Arrythmias (Pi)
  7. John Zorn, A Vision of Blakelight (Tzadik)
  8. Matthew Shipp, Piano Sutras (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Ben Goldberg, Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues (BAG)
  10. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, That's It (Legacy)

REISSUES

  1. Clifford Jordan, The Complete Strata-East Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Jim Hall, Live Vol. 2-4 (ArtistShare)
  3. John Coltrane, Sun Ship: The Complete Session (Impulse/Mosaic)

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Matthew Kassel (New York Observer)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Cécile McLorin Salvant, WomanChild (Mack Avenue)
  2. Jose James, No Beginning No End (Blue Note)
  3. Gregory Porter, Liquid Spirit (Blue Note)
  4. Champian Fulton, Sings and Swings (Sharp Nine)
  5. Tommy Flanagan & Jaki Byard, Magic of Two (Resonance)
  6. Robert Glasper, Black Radio 2 (Blue Note)
  7. Marco Cappelli, Le Stagioni Del Commissario Ricciardi (Tzadik)
  8. Wayne Shorter, Without a Net (Blue Note)
  9. Chris Potter, Sirens (ECM)
  10. Aaron Diehl, The Bespoke Man's Narrative (Mack Avenue)

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Elzy Kolb (Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-uba, 30 Years: A Musical Celebration of Cuba in America (Advance Dance Disques)
  2. Jaimeo Brown, Transcendence (Motéma)
  3. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Trios (ECM)
  4. Geri Allen, Grand River Crossings: Motown & Motor City Inspirations (Motéma)
  5. Lucian Ban, Elevation/Mystery (Sunnyside)
  6. Will Calhoun, Life in This World (Motéma)
  7. Mary Stallings, But Beautiful (HighNote)
  8. Frank Wess, Magic 101 (IPO)
  9. David Murray, Be My Monster Love (Motéma)
  10. Jamie Baum, In This Life (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Jack DeJohnette, Special Edition (ECM)
  2. Woody Shaw, The Complete Muse Sessions (Mosaic)
  3. Clifford Jordan, The Complete Strata-East Sessions (Mosaic)

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David Kunian (OffBeat, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (Constellation)
  2. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, That's It (Legacy)
  3. Kidd Jordan/Hamid Drake, A Night in November (Valid)
  4. Sex Mob, Plays Fellini (Royal Potato Family)
  5. Nicholas Payton, Sketches of Spain (BMF)
  6. Meschiya Lake, Fooler's Gold (CD Baby)
  7. Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd, Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project (Pi)
  8. Mary Halvorson, Illusionary Sea (Firehouse 12)
  9. Cécile McLorin Salvant, WomanChild (Mack Avenue)
  10. David Chesky, Jazz in the New Harmonic (Chesky)

REISSUES

  1. Tom McDermott, Bamboula (Minky -12)
  2. James Booker, Classified: Remixed and Expanded (Rounder)
  3. Art Hodes, I Remember Bessie (Delmark)

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Joe Lang (Jersey Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tommy Cecil & Bill Mays, Our Time: Sondheim Duos Vol. 2 (Tommy Cecil)
  2. Mike Longo, Live from New York (Creative Artists)
  3. Rossano Sportiello-Harry Allen-Joel Forbes, I Walk With Music: The Hoagy Carmichael Song Book (GAC)
  4. Dick Hyman & Ken Peplowski, Live at the Kitano (Victoria Company)
  5. Claire Daly, Baritone Monk (NCB Jazz)
  6. Bill Mays, Life's a Movie (Chiaroscuro)
  7. Stan Kenton, Road Shows (Tantara)
  8. Hod O'Brien, I Hear a Rhapsody (Spice of Life)
  9. DePaul Jazz Ensemble & Jeff Hamilton, Salutes Woody Herman (Jazzed Media)
  10. Manhattan School of Music Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra, Artistry in Rhythm (Jazzheads)

REISSUES

  1. Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald, Complete Decca Sessions 1934-1941 (Mosaic)
  2. Sarah Vaughan, Sophisticated Lady: The Duke Ellington Songbook Collection (Pablo )
  3. Harry James, The Harry James Sessions 1976 & 1979 (Sheffield Labs)

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Art Lange (Point of Departure, Fanfare)

NEW RELEASES

  1. The Whammies, Play the Music of Steve Lacy, Vol. 2 (Driff)
  2. Lester Young, Boston 1950 (Uptown)
  3. Anthony Braxton, Ensemble Montaigne (Bau 4) 2013 (Leo)
  4. Flex Bent Braam, Lucebert (BBB)
  5. Tim Berne, Shadow Man (ECM)
  6. Ben Goldberg, Subatomic Particle Homesick Blues (BAG)
  7. Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Mat Maneri, A Violent Dose of Anything Leo ()
  8. Aki Takase, My Ellington (Intakt)
  9. Lotte Anker-Rodrigo Pinheiro-Hernani Faustino, Birthmark (Clean Feed)
  10. Frank Rosaly, Cicada Music (Delmark)

REISSUES

  1. Ran Blake, Plays Solo Piano (ESP-Disk)
  2. John Stevens-Paul Rutherford-Evan Parker-Barry Guy, One Four and Two Twos (Emanem)
  3. Eddie Shu, I Only Have Eyes For Shu (Bethlehem)

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Josh Langhoff (The Singles Jukebox, PopMatters)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wayne Shorter, Without a Net (Blue Note)
  2. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile (Constellation)
  3. Mark Dresser, Nourishments (Clean Feed)
  4. Preservation Hall Jazz Band, That's It (Legacy)
  5. Darcy James Argue, Brooklyn Babylon (New Amsterdam)
  6. Allison Miller, No Morphine, No Lilies (Royal Potato Family)
  7. Dave Douglas, Time Travel (Greenleaf)
  8. Cécile McLorin Salvant, WomanChild (Mack Avenue)
  9. David Buchbinder, Walk to the Sea (Tzadik)
  10. Patricia Barber, Smash (Concord Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Devin Leonard (Bloomberg Businessweek)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chris Potter, Sirens (ECM)
  2. Craig Taborn, Chants (ECM)
  3. David Binney, Lifted Land (Criss Cross)
  4. Aaron Parks, Arborescence (ECM)
  5. Drew Gress, The Sky Inside (Pirouet)
  6. Tomasz Stanko, Wislawa (ECM)
  7. Kris Davis, Massive Threads (Thirsty Ear)
  8. Ralph Alessi, Baida (ECM)
  9. Eric Revis-Kris Davis-Andrew Cyrille, City of Asylum (Clean Feed)
  10. Dave Holland, Prism (Dare 2)

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Aidan Levy (Village Voice, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wayne Shorter, Without a Net (Blue Note)
  2. John Zorn, Dreamachines (Tzadik)
  3. John McNeil, Hush Point (Sunnyside)
  4. Marc Cary, For the Love of Abbey (Motéma)
  5. Darcy James Argue, Brooklyn Babylon (New Amsterdam)
  6. Charles Lloyd & Jason Moran, Hagar's Song (ECM)
  7. Noah Preminger, Haymaker (Palmetto)
  8. Cécile McLorin Salvant, WomanChild (Mack Avenue)
  9. Matt Mitchell, Fiction (Pi)
  10. Aaron Diehl, The Bespoke Man's Narrative (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

  1. Clifford Jordan, The Complete Strata-East Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Jack DeJohnette, Special Edition (ECM)
  3. Duke Ellington, The Ellington Suites (OJC/Pablo)

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John Litweiler (author of Sundidos [Goodbait Books])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Tumo, Occupy the World (TUM)
  2. Art Pepper & Warne Marsh, Art Pepper & Warne Marsh (Widow's Taste (download))
  3. Keefe Jackson, A Round Goal (Delmark)
  4. Mike Reed, Second Cities: Volume 1 (482 Music)
  5. Jason Kao Hwang, Burning Bridge (Innova -12)
  6. Ghost Train Orchestra, Book of Rhapsodies (Accurate)
  7. The Whammies, Play the Music of Steve Lacy, Vol. 2 (Driff)
  8. Frank Rosaly, Cicada Music (Delmark)
  9. Ken Vandermark, Impressions of Po Music (Okka)
  10. Joshua Abrams, Unknown Known (RogueArt)

REISSUES

  1. Earl Hines, The Classic Earl Hines Sessions: 1928-1945 (Mosaic)
  2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford, Flight for Four (International Phonograph)

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Martin Longley (Jazzwise, All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kjetil Møster, Edvard Lygre Møster (Hubro)
  2. Shatner's Bassoon, Aquatic Ape Privilege (Wasp Millionaire)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith & Tumo, Occupy the World (TUM)
  4. Scott Fields, Kintsugi (Between the Lines)
  5. The Thing, Boot! (The Thing)
  6. Fire!, (Without Noticing) (Rune Grammofon)
  7. Worldservice Project, Fire in a Pet Shop (Megasound)
  8. Arve Henriksen, Places of Worship (Rune Grammofon)
  9. Mulatu Astatke, Sketches of Ethiopia (Jazz Village)
  10. Lol Coxhill & Michel Doneda, Sitting on Your Stairs (Emanem)

REISSUES

  1. John Stevens-Paul Rutherford-Evan Parker-Barry Guy, One Four and Two Twos (Emanem)
  2. Anthony Braxton, Eight (+1) Tristano Compositions 1989 for Warne Marsh (Hatology)
  3. Iskra 1903, South on the Northern (Emanem)

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Suzanne Lorge (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Cécile McLorin Salvant, WomanChild (Mack Avenue)
  2. Carline Ray, Vocal Sides (Carlcat)
  3. Wayne Shorter, Without a Net (Blue Note)
  4. Terence Blanchard, Magnetic (Blue Note)
  5. Christian McBride, Out Here (Mack Avenue)
  6. Terri Lyne Carrington, Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue (Concord)
  7. Wycliffe Gordon, The Intimate Ellington (Criss Cross)
  8. Joe Lovano, Cross Culture (Blue Note)
  9. Kenny Garrett, Pushing the World Away (Mack Avenue)
  10. Paquito D'Rivera & Trio Corrente, Song for Maura (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald, Complete Decca Sessions 1934-1941 (Mosaic)
  2. John Coltrane, Afro Blue Impressions (Pablo)
  3. Charlie Parker, Integrale (Fremeaux & Associates)

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Phillip Lutz (DownBeat, The New York Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joe Lovano, Cross Culture (Blue Note)
  2. Charles Evans, Subliminal Leaps (More Is More)
  3. Dave Liebman-Michael Stephens, Lineage (Whaling City Sound)
  4. Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette, Somewhere (ECM)
  5. Vadim Neselovskyi & Arkady Shilkloper, Last Snow (Art Beat)
  6. Gary Burton, Guided Tour (Mack Avenue)
  7. Ahmad Jamal, Saturday Morning (Jazz Village)
  8. Taylor Ho Bynum-John Hébert-Gerald Cleaver, Book of Three: Continuum (2012) (Relative Pitch)
  9. Tom Harrell, Colors of a Dream (HighNote)
  10. Brian Landrus, Mirage (Blueland)

REISSUES

  1. John McLaughlin, Belo Horizonte (WEA Japan)
  2. Martial Solal, Le Cinema De Martial Solal (Universal Japan)
  3. Bill Evans, How My Heart Sings (Concord)

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Jim Macnie (Downbeat, Village Voice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Craig Taborn, Chants (ECM)
  2. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Red Hot (Hot Cup)
  3. Ahmad Jamal, Saturday Morning (Jazz Village)
  4. Mario Pavone, Arc Trio (Playscape)
  5. Kris Davis, Massive Threads (Thirsty Ear)
  6. John McNeil, Hush Point (Sunnyside)
  7. Laubrock/Rainey/Davis/Alessi, LARK (Skirl)
  8. John Hébert, Floodstage (Clean Feed)
  9. Black Host, Life in the Sugar Candle Mines (Northern Spy)
  10. Tim Berne, Shadow Man (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Instant Composers Pool, The Complete Catalogue (ICP)
  2. Paul Motian, Paul Motian (ECM)
  3. Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol. 2 (Columbia/Legacy)

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