9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014

Ballot 2014

Will Layman (PopMatters)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  2. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  3. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  4. Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp, Cosmic Leider: The Darkseid Recital (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Dave Douglas & Uri Caine, Present Joys (Greenleaf)
  6. Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein, Viper's Drag (Impulse)
  7. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  8. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  9. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  10. Medeski, Martin & Wood + Nels Cline, Woodstock Sessions, Vol.2 (Indirecto)

REISSUES

  1. Herbie Hancock, The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) (Warner Bros.)
  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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