9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014

Ballot 2014

Karl Ackermann (All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Awakening Orchestra, Vol. 1: This Is Not the Answer (Innova)
  2. Sylvain Rifflet & Jon Irabagon, Perpetual Motion(A Celebration of Moondog) (Jazz Village)
  3. Alexander Hawkins, Song Singular (Babel -13)
  4. Nils Petter Molvær, Switch (Okeh)
  5. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  6. Marcin Wasilewski With Joakim Milder, Spark of Life (ECM)
  7. Pharoah Sanders & the Underground, Spiral Mercury (Clean Feed)
  8. Black Top, No. 1 (Babel)
  9. Michael Mantler, Jazz Composer's Orchestra Update (ECM)
  10. Michael Musillami, Pride (Playscape)

REISSUES

  1. Pauline Oliveros, The Wanderer (Important)
  2. Sam Rivers, Contrasts (ECM)
  3. Charlie Haden, Helium Tears (West Wind)

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