9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014

Ballot 2014

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)

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN