9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014

Ballot 2014

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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