9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014

Ballot 2014

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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