9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014
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Ken Dryden (The New York City Jazz Record, Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Over Time: The Music of Bob Brookmeyer (Planet Arts)
  2. Denny Zeitlin, Stairway to the Stars (Sunnyside)
  3. John Clayton, The Parlor Series, Vol. 1: Gerald Clayton LTD (ArtistShare -13)
  4. Kirk Knuffke & Jesse Stacken, Five (SteepleChase)
  5. Lee Konitz-Dan Tepfer-Michael Janisch-Jeff Williams, First Meeting: Live in London, Vol. 1 (Whirlwind)
  6. Carsten Dahl, A Good Time (Storyville)
  7. The Microscopic Septet, Manhattan Moonrise (Cuneiform)
  8. Zach Brock & Eric Doney, As If By Magic (MD)
  9. Martin Wind, Turn Out the Stars (What If? Music)
  10. Holly Hofmann, Low Life: The Alto Flute Project (Capri)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  3. Dill Jones, Up Jumped You With Love (Hep)

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Donald Elfman (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Scott Wendholt/Adam Kolker, And Them (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  2. Lisa Hilton, Kaleidoscope (Ruby Slippers)
  3. Owen Howard, Drum Lore Vol. 2: More Lore (BJU)
  4. Marty Ehrlich, A Trumpet in the Morning (New World -13)
  5. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13)
  6. Ernie Krivda, Live at the Tri-C Jazz Festival (Cadence Jazz)
  7. Doug Wieselman, From Water (88 Records)
  8. Pete McGuinness, Strength in Numbers (Summit)
  9. JD Allen, Bloom (Savant)
  10. Christine Jensen, Habitat (Justin Time -13)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Ran Blake, Solo Piano (ESP-Disk -13)
  3. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)

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Brad Farberman (JazzTimes, Time Out New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  2. Mark Guiliana, The Los Angeles Improvisations (Beat Music)
  3. Johnny O'Neal, Live at Smalls (SmallsLive)
  4. Mehliana, Taming the Dragon (Nonesuch)
  5. Charlie Hunter & Scott Amendola, The Cars/Hank Williams/Cole Porter/Duke Ellington (Charlie Hunter Music)
  6. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  7. David Binney, Anacapa (Criss Cross)
  8. Dave Douglas, Riverside (Greenleaf)
  9. Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  10. Matt Wilson + John Medeski, Gathering Call (Palmetto)

REISSUES

  1. John Lurie, The Invention of Animals (Amulet)

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Steve Feeney (Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chick Corea, Trilogy (Stretch/Concord)
  2. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  3. Brandon Ross & Stomu Takeishi, Revealing Essence (Sunnyside)
  4. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  5. Jimmy Cobb, The Original Mob (Smoke Sessions)
  6. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  7. Joshua Redman, Trios Live (Nonesuch)
  8. Sam Newsome, The Straight Horn of Africa: A Path to Liberation (self-released)
  9. Tim Hegarty, Tribute (Miles High)
  10. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13)

REISSUES

  1. Cassandra Wilson, Blue Light 'til Dawn (Blue Note)
  2. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  3. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)

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Ken Franckling (JazzTimes, Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Cava Menzies & Nick Phillips, Moment to Moment (Nick Phillips Music)
  2. Barb Jungr, Hard Rain (Kristalyn)
  3. Pat Metheny, Kin (Nonesuch)
  4. Christine Jensen, Habitat (Justin Time -13)
  5. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  6. Craig Handy, Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh)
  7. George Cables, Icons & Influences (HighNote)
  8. Alan Broadbent & NDR Big Band, America the Beautiful (Jan Matthies)
  9. Jamie Saft-Steve Swallow-Bobby Previte, The New Standard (Rare Noise)
  10. Suzanna Smith, Between Heaven & Love (Ink Pen)

REISSUES

  1. Gene Ludwig & Pat Martino, Young Guns (HighNote)
  2. Francy Boland, Playing With the Trio (Schema Rearward)
  3. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)

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Phil Freeman (Burning Ambulance, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jemeel Moondoc, The Zookeeper's House (Relative Pitch)
  2. Jerome Sabbagh, The Turn (Sunnyside)
  3. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  4. Brian Charette, The Question That Drives Us (SteepleChase)
  5. Mike DiRubbo, Threshold (Ksanti)
  6. Sarah Manning, Harmonious Creature (Posi-Tone)
  7. Mark Lomax, Isis and Osiris (Inarhyme)
  8. Tom Tallitsch, Ride (Posi-Tone)
  9. Eric Wyatt, Borough of Kings (Posi-Tone)
  10. Donald Edwards, Evolution of an Influenced Mind (Criss Cross)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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David Fricke (Rolling Stone)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  2. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  3. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  4. Nels Cline & Julian Lage, Room (Mack Avenue)
  5. Bad Plus, Inevitable Western (Okeh)
  6. Phil Haynes, No Fast Food/In Concert (CornerStoreJazz)
  7. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music)
  8. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  9. Hush Point, Blues and Reds (Sunnyside)
  10. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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Jon Garelick (Boston Globe)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Danilo Pérez, Panama 500 (Mack Avenue)
  2. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  3. Melissa Aldana, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord)
  4. Nels Cline & Julian Lage, Room (Mack Avenue)
  5. Matt Wilson + John Medeski, Gathering Call (Palmetto)
  6. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music)
  7. Jerome Sabbagh, The Turn (Sunnyside)
  8. Bob Stewart, Mind the Gap (Sunnyside)
  9. Peter Epstein, Polarities (Songlines)
  10. Avishai Cohen, Dark Nights (Anzic)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)

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Richard Gehr (Village Voice, eMusic)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  2. Bushman's Revenge, Thou Shalt Boogie (Rune Grammofon)
  3. Dan Weiss, Fourteen (Pi)
  4. Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  5. Ohad Talmor-Steve Swallow-Adam Nussbaum, Singular Curves (Auand)
  6. Nels Cline & Julian Lage, Room (Mack Avenue)
  7. Tisziji Muñoz, Sky Worlds (Anand)
  8. Ben Allison, The Stars Look Very Different Today (Sonic Camera -13)
  9. Ed Palermo, Oh No! Not Jazz!! (Cuneiform)
  10. Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein, Viper's Drag (Impulse)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Julian Bahula, The Spirit of Malombo (Strut)
  3. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)

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Andrew Gilbert (San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, Berkleyside.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Yosvany Terry, New Throned King (5 Pasion)
  2. Fred Hersch, Floating (Palmetto)
  3. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  4. Edward Simon, Venezuelan Suite (Sunnyside)
  5. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13)
  6. Eric Revis, In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)
  7. Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Jazz Racine Haiti (Motéma)
  8. Omer Avital, New Song (Motéma)
  9. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  10. Yelena Eckemoff, A Touch of Radiance (L&H Productions)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Howard McGhee, West Coast 1945-47 (Uptown)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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Ted Gioia (The Jazz Standards, The History of Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fred Hersch, Floating (Palmetto)
  2. Billy Childs, Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro (Sony Masterworks)
  3. Elio Villafranca, Old Waters, New Rivers (Harbinger)
  4. Denny Zeitlin, Stairway to the Stars (Sunnyside)
  5. Arve Henriksen, The Nature of Connections (Rune Grammofon)
  6. Norma Winstone, Dance Without Answer (ECM)
  7. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  8. Ed Palermo, Oh No! Not Jazz!! (Cuneiform)
  9. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  10. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)

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Kurt Gottschalk (WFMU, The New York City Jazz Record, Brooklyn Rail)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ju Sei & Utah Kawasaki, U as in Utah (Ftarri)
  2. Bernie Worrell, Elevation: The Upper Air (M.O.D. Technologies)
  3. Margareth Kammerer, Why Is the Sea So Blue (Mikroton)
  4. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  5. Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach, So Long Eric! Homage to Eric Dolphy (Intakt)
  6. David Krakauer, The Big Picture (Table Pounding)
  7. Gato Libre, Dudu (Libra)
  8. JazzWerkstatt Wien New Ensemble, Sympathikus Parasympathikus (JazzWerkstatt Wien)
  9. Volger Quartett & Marcelo Nisinman, Señor Tango (Jazzwerkstatt)
  10. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Lester Bowie, The Great Pretender/Steel + Breath (Jazzwerkstatt)
  3. Don Pullen, Richard's Tune (Delmark)

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Steve Greenlee (Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joshua Redman, Trios Live (Nonesuch)
  2. Anthony Pirog, Palo Colorado Dream (Cuneiform)
  3. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  4. Jon Batiste-Chad Smith-Bill Laswell, The Process (M.O.D. Technologies)
  5. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  6. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  7. Matthew Shipp, I've Been to Many Places (Thirsty Ear)
  8. Sammy Figueroa & Glacia Nasser, Talisman (Savant)
  9. Mimi Jones, Balance (Hot Tone)
  10. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Buddy Tate, Texas Tenor (Sackville)

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George Grella (The Brooklyn Rail, The Big City Blog, New Music Box)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  2. Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer, Wiring (Intakt)
  3. Joe Morris, Balance (Clean Feed)
  4. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  5. Ken Thomson, Settle (NCM-East)
  6. Fred Hersch, Floating (Palmetto)
  7. Tom Harrell, The Auditorium Session (Parco Della Musica)
  8. Jochen Rueckert, We Make the Rules (Whirlwind)
  9. Jonas Kulhammar-Torbjórn Zetterberg-Espen Aalberg, Basement Sessions Vol. 2 (Clean Feed)
  10. Prism Quartet, People's Emergency Center (Innova)

REISSUES

  1. Steve Lacy, Complete Black Saint & Soul Note Quartet, Quintet, Sextet & Octet Recordings (CAM Jazz)
  2. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  3. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)

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Jason Gubbels (Rhapsody)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  2. Paul Shapiro, Shofarot Verses (Tzadik)
  3. Allen Lowe, Mulatto Radio: Field Recordings 1-4 (Or: A Jew at Large in the Minstrel Diaspora (Constant Sorrow)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith-Jamie Saft-Joe Morris-Balazs Pandi, Red Hill (Rare Noise)
  5. Max Johnson, The Invisible Trio (Fresh Sound)
  6. Elio Villafranca, Caribbean Tinge (Motéma)
  7. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  8. James Brandon Lewis, Divine Travels (Okeh)
  9. John Hollenbeck-Alban Darche-Sébastien Boisseau-Samuel Blaser, J.A.S.S. (Yolk)
  10. Søren Kjærgaard-Ben Street-Andrew Cyrille, Syvmileskridt (ILK Music)

REISSUES

  1. Various, The Complete Dial Modern Jazz Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Julian Bahula, The Spirit of Malombo (Strut)
  3. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)

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Evan Haga (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  3. Melissa Aldana, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord)
  4. Dave Douglas, Riverside (Greenleaf)
  5. Hush Point, Blues and Reds (Sunnyside)
  6. Jason Adasiewicz, From the Region (Delmark)
  7. Avishai Cohen, Dark Nights (Anzic)
  8. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  9. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  10. Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age! (Okeh)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Paris 1969 (Blue Note -13)
  3. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)

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James Hale (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Michael Blake, Tiddy Boom (Sunnyside)
  2. Alfredo Rodriguez, The Invasion Parade (Mack Avenue)
  3. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  4. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  5. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  6. Melissa Aldana, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord)
  7. Oran Etkin, Gathering Light (Motéma)
  8. Dave Douglas & Uri Caine, Present Joys (Greenleaf)
  9. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  10. Marianne Trudel, La Vie Commence Ici (Justin Time)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Stan Getz, Live at Montreux 1972 (Eagle)

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Don Heckman (The International Review of Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  2. Branford Marsalis, In My Solitude: Live at Grace Cathedral (Okeh)
  3. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  4. Joshua Redman, Trios Live (Nonesuch)
  5. Chick Corea, Trilogy (Stretch/Concord)
  6. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  7. Clayton-Hamilton Orchestra, The L.A. Treasures Project (Capri)
  8. Pat Metheny, Kin (Nonesuch)
  9. Helen Sung, Anthem for a New Day (Concord)
  10. Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age! (Okeh)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Blue Train (Blue Note Vinyl)
  2. Miles Davis f. John Coltrane, All of You: The Last Tour 1960 (Acrobat)
  3. Louis Armstrong, Complete Newport 1956 & 1958 (Mosaic Vinyl)

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Alex Henderson (AlterNet, Salon, The New York City Jazz Record, Jazz Inside, XBIZ)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Pat Metheny, Kin (Nonesuch)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  3. Roseanna Vitro, Clarity: Music of Clare Fischer (Random Act)
  4. Bobby Hutcherson-Dave Sanborn-Joey DeFrancesco-Billy Hart, Enjoy the View (Blue Note)
  5. Bob Dorough, Eulalia (Merry Lane)
  6. Kahil El'Zabar, Follow the Sun (Delmark -13)
  7. Gregory Porter/Donald Smith/Mansur Scott, Great Voices of Harlem (PAO)
  8. Pete Robbins, Pyramid (Hate Laugh Music)
  9. Libby York, Memoir (Libby York Music)
  10. Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age! (Okeh)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz, Live at Montreux 1972 (Eagle)
  2. Sonny Rollins, The Sound of Sonny (Concord/Original Jazz Classics)
  3. Howard McGhee, West Coast 1945-47 (Uptown)

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Tad Hendrickson (iTunes, Wall Street Journal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  2. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  3. Andy Bey, Pages From an Imaginary Life (HighNote)
  4. Kris Bowers, Heroes + Misfits (Concord)
  5. Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein, Viper's Drag (Impulse)
  6. Pat Metheny, Kin (Nonesuch)
  7. José James, While You Were Sleeping (Blue Note)
  8. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  9. Tigran Hamasyan, Shadow Theater (Sunnyside)
  10. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Sun Ra, Atlantis (El Saturn/iTunes)
  3. Oscar Peterson, Exclusively for My Friends: My Favorite Instrument, Vol. 4 (Edel/Kulture)

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