9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014
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Andrey Henkin (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Geoffrey Himes (Washington Post, DownBeat, JazzTimes, Baltimore City Paper)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  2. Lafayette Gilchrist, The Go-Go Suite (Creative Differences)
  3. Kat Edmonson, The Big Picture (Sony Masterworks)
  4. Jeff Ballard, Time's Travels (Okeh)
  5. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  6. Diego Barber & Craig Taborn, Tales (Sunnyside)
  7. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  8. Pat Metheny, Kin (Nonesuch)
  9. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  10. Avishai Cohen, Dark Nights (Anzic)

REISSUES

  1. Walt Namuth, Left Bank '66 (Baltimore Jazz Alliance)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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Will Hermes (Rolling Stone, NPR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Flying Lotus, You're Dead! (Warp)
  2. Majid Bekkas, Al Qantara (Igloo)
  3. Nels Cline & Julian Lage, Room (Mack Avenue)
  4. Arturo O'Farrill, The Offense of the Drum (Motéma)
  5. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  6. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  7. Matthew Shipp, I've Been to Many Places (Thirsty Ear)
  8. Bad Plus, Inevitable Western (Okeh)
  9. Kavita Shah, Visions (Inner Circle Music)
  10. Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood, Juice (Indirecto)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Various, Creative Music Studio: Archive Selections, Vol. 1 (Innova)
  3. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)

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Eugene Holley, Jr. (Publishers Weekly, Newmusic.org, DownBeat, Purejazz Magazine, WaxPoetic)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Harvey Mason, Chameleon (Concord)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  3. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  4. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  5. Branford Marsalis, In My Solitude: Live at Grace Cathedral (Okeh)
  6. Harold Mabern, Right on Time (Smoke Sessions)
  7. Bobby Hutcherson-Dave Sanborn-Joey DeFrancesco-Billy Hart, Enjoy the View (Blue Note)
  8. Orrin Evans, Mother's Touch (Posi-Tone)
  9. Mike Longo, Celebrates Oscar Peterson Live (Consolidated Artists)
  10. Matthew Shipp, I've Been to Many Places (Thirsty Ear)

REISSUES

  1. Modern Jazz Quartet, Lost Tapes: Germany 1956-1958 (Jazz Haus/SWR Music -13)
  2. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  3. John Coltrane, Afro Blue Impressions (Pablo -13)

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Terrell Holmes (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darius Jones, The Oversoul Manual (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  3. Fabien Sevilla, Contrebass Solo + Expansion (UNIT)
  4. Sean Jones, Im·pro·vise Never Before Seen (Mack Avenue)
  5. Eddie Gomez & Carsten Dahl, Live at Montmartre (Storyville)
  6. Various, 13 Miniatures for Albert Ayler (RogueArt)

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Mark Holston (Jazziz, Latino)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Helen Sung, Anthem for a New Day (Concord)
  2. Ricardo Silveira, Organ tRio (Adventure Music)
  3. Joe Beck, Get Me Joe Beck (Whaling City Sound)
  4. Steve Khan, Context (Tone Center)
  5. Doc Stewart, Code Blue! (self-released)
  6. Chris Walden, Full-On! (Origin)
  7. Joyce Moreno, Raiz (Omagatoki)
  8. Antonio Adolfo, Rio, Choro, Jazz (AAM)
  9. Melissa Aldana, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord)
  10. Spok Frevo, Ninho de Vespa (Motéma)

REISSUES

  1. Helen Merrill, Parole e Musica (Schema Rearward)
  2. Cedar Walton, Reliving the Moment (HighNote)
  3. Francy Boland, Playing With the Trio (Schema Rearward)

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Lyn Horton (The Paradigm for Beauty)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darius Jones, The Oversoul Manual (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  3. Chicago Underground Duo, Locus (Northern Spy)
  4. Jason Roebke, High Red Center (Delmark)
  5. Matthew Shipp, Root of Things (Relative Pitch)
  6. Dave Rempis-Darren Johnston-Larry Ochs, Spectral (Aerophonic)
  7. Billy Bang & William Parker, Medicine Buddha (NoBusiness)
  8. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp, Cosmic Leider: The Darkseid Recital (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Jason Adasiewicz, From the Region (Delmark)

REISSUES

  1. Joe McPhee, Glasses (Corbett & Dempsey)

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Tom Hull (tomhull.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  2. Paul Shapiro, Shofarot Verses (Tzadik)
  3. Digital Primitives, Lipsomuch/Soul Searchin' (Hopscotch -13)
  4. Velkro, Don't Wait for the Revolution (Clean Feed)
  5. Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Live Snakes (Accurate)
  6. Ivo Perelman, The Other Edge (Leo)
  7. Rent Romus, Cimmerian Crossroads (Edgetone)
  8. Kris Davis, Waiting for You to Grow (Clean Feed)
  9. Craig Handy, Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (Okeh)
  10. Allen Lowe, Mulatto Radio: Field Recordings 1-4 (Or: A Jew at Large in the Minstrel Diaspora (Constant Sorrow)

REISSUES

  1. Ted Daniel, Interconnection (NoBusiness)
  2. Sun Ra, In the Orbit of Ra (Strut)
  3. Buddy Tate, Texas Tenor (Sackville)

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Peter Hum (The Ottawa Citizen, jazzblog.ca)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  3. Edward Simon, Venezuelan Suite (Sunnyside)
  4. Johnathan Blake, Gone But Not Forgotten (Criss Cross)
  5. Norma Winstone, Dance Without Answer (ECM)
  6. Kyle Shepherd, Dream State (Sheer Sound)
  7. Steffano Bollani, Joy in Spite of Everything (ECM)
  8. David Virelles, Mbókò (ECM)
  9. Jimmy Greene, Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue)
  10. Jerome Sabbagh, The Turn (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  2. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  3. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)

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Robert Iannapollo (Cadence, The New York City Jazz Journal, ARSC Journal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach, So Long Eric! Homage to Eric Dolphy (Intakt)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  3. Samuel Blaser, Mirror to Machaut (Songlines -13)
  4. Fay Victor, Absinthe and Vermouth (Greene Avenue -13)
  5. Paul Smoker, Landings (Alvas -13)
  6. Ayman Fanous & Jason Kao Hwang, Zilzal (Innova)
  7. Michael Musillami, Pride (Playscape)
  8. Whammies, Play the Music of Steve Lacy Vol. 3: Live (Driff)
  9. Satoko Fujii, Shiki (Libra)
  10. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Joe McPhee, Nation Time: The Complete Recordings (Corbett vs. Dempsey -13)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)

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Patrick Jarenwattananon (NPR Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jeff Ballard, Time's Travels (Okeh)
  2. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  3. Fred Hersch, Floating (Palmetto)
  4. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  5. Ron Miles, Circuit Rider (Enja/Yellowbird)
  6. Arturo O'Farrill, The Offense of the Drum (Motéma)
  7. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  8. Led Bib, The People in Your Neighborhood (Cuneiform)
  9. James Brandon Lewis, Divine Travels (Okeh)
  10. Melissa Aldana, Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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Willard Jenkins (The Independent Ear, WPFW, DownBeat, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  3. Jane Bunnett, Jane Bunnett and Maqueque (Justin Time)
  4. Bob Stewart, Mind the Gap (Sunnyside)
  5. Carmen Lundy, Soul to Soul (Afrasia)
  6. Chick Corea, Trilogy (Stretch/Concord)
  7. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  8. Archie Shepp, I Hear the Sound (Archi Ball)
  9. Andy Bey, Pages From an Imaginary Life (HighNote)
  10. Elio Villafranca, Caribbean Tinge (Motéma)

REISSUES

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

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Richard B. Kamins (Step Tempest)

NEW RELEASES

  1. JC Sanford, View From the Inside (Whirlwind)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  3. Darryl Harper, The Needs Got to Be So Deep (HipNotic)
  4. Kavita Shah, Visions (Inner Circle Music)
  5. Hafez Modirzadeh, In Convergence Liberation (Pi)
  6. Arturo O'Farrill, The Offense of the Drum (Motéma)
  7. Eric Hofbauer, The Rite of Spring (Creative Nation)
  8. Orrin Evans, Mother's Touch (Posi-Tone)
  9. David Ullmann, Corduroy (Little Sky)
  10. Noah Garabedian, Big Butter and the Eggmen (BJU)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  2. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  3. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)

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

NEW RELEASES

  1. Johnathan Blake, Gone But Not Forgotten (Criss Cross)
  2. Eddie Allen, Push (Edjalen)
  3. Dave Liebman, A Tribute to Wayne Shorter (MAMA)
  4. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Over Time: The Music of Bob Brookmeyer (Planet Arts)
  5. Alan Chan, Shrimp Tale (Crown Heights Audio Network)
  6. Jeff Ballard, Time's Travels (Okeh)
  7. Jason Roebke, High Red Center (Delmark)
  8. Frank Kimbrough, Quartet (Palmetto)
  9. Steve Wilson & Lewis Nash, Duologue (MCG Jazz)
  10. Michael Dease, Relentless (Posi-Tone)

REISSUES

  1. Bud Powell, Birdland 1953 (ESP-Disk)
  2. Modern Jazz Quartet, Lost Tapes: Germany 1956-1958 (Jazz Haus/SWR Music -13)
  3. Various, The Complete Dial Modern Jazz Sessions (Mosaic)

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Fred Kaplan (Slate, Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  2. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  3. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  4. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  5. Fred Hersch, Floating (Palmetto)
  6. Sylvie Courvoisier, Double Windsor (Tzadik)
  7. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  8. Matt Wilson + John Medeski, Gathering Call (Palmetto)
  9. Frank Kimbrough, Quartet (Palmetto)
  10. Paul Bley, Play Blue: Oslo Concert (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Duke Ellington, Masterpieces by Ellington (Analogue Productions LP)
  2. Various, The Complete Dial Modern Jazz Sessions (Mosaic)
  3. Louis Armstrong, Complete Newport 1956 & 1958 (Mosaic Vinyl)

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Larry Kart (Jazz in Search of Itself)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Over Time: The Music of Bob Brookmeyer (Planet Arts)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  3. Bobby Bradford & Frode Gjersted, Silver Cornet (Nessa)
  4. Allen Lowe, Mulatto Radio: Field Recordings 1-4 (Or: A Jew at Large in the Minstrel Diaspora (Constant Sorrow)
  5. Tony Kadleck, Around the Horn (self-released)
  6. Dick Oatts & Harold Danko, Sweet Nowhere (SteepleChase)
  7. Roscoe Mitchell & Mike Reed, In Pursuit of Magic (482 Music)
  8. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  9. Gigi Di Gregorio, Live at JCT (Jazz City)
  10. Jason Roebke, High Red Center (Delmark)

REISSUES

  1. Lennie Tristano, Chicago April 1951 (Uptown)
  2. Ira Sullivan, Circumstantial (Nessa)
  3. Hal Russell + Charles Tyler, Generation (Nessa)

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Elzy Kolb (Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Regina Carter, Southern Comfort (Sony Masterworks)
  2. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  3. Wayne Escoffery, Live at Firehouse 12 (Sunnyside)
  4. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  5. Ellen Rowe, Courage Music (PKO)
  6. George Cables, Icons & Influences (HighNote)
  7. Karen Mantler, Business Is Bad (Xtra Watt)
  8. Dave Douglas & Uri Caine, Present Joys (Greenleaf)
  9. The Puppeteers, The Puppeteers (Puppet's)
  10. Archie Shepp, I Hear the Sound (Archi Ball)

REISSUES

  1. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)

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David Kunian (DownBeat, Oxford American, Offbeat, Gambit Weekly, Indy, Beat Street)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Audio One, The Midwest School (Audiographic)
  2. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  3. Aurora Nealand & Royal Roses, Lookback Transmission (self-released)
  4. Shotgun Jazz Band, Don't Give Up the Ship (self-released)
  5. Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein, Viper's Drag (Impulse)
  6. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  7. Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Live Snakes (Accurate)
  8. Jimmy Greene, Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue)
  9. Mack Avenue Super Band, Live at Detroit Jazz Festival (Mack Avenue)
  10. Dillon, Vidacovich, Singleton, Bones (self-released -13)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  2. Bud Powell, Birdland 1953 (ESP-Disk)
  3. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)

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Art Lange (Point of Departure, Fanfare)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

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Josh Langhoff (PopMatters, The Singles Jukebox)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Raoul Björkenheim, Ecstasy (Cuneiform)
  2. Matt Wilson + John Medeski, Gathering Call (Palmetto)
  3. Satoko Fujii, Shiki (Libra)
  4. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  5. Mark Lomax, Isis and Osiris (Inarhyme)
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  7. Tyler Blanton, Gotham (Ottimo)
  8. Ryan Keberle, Into the Zone (Greenleaf)
  9. Jon Irabagon, It Takes All Kinds (Irabbagast/Jazzwerkstatt)
  10. Jeff Ballard, Time's Travels (Okeh)

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