9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014

Ballot 2014

Bill Shoemaker (Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  2. Bobby Bradford & Frode Gjersted, Silver Cornet (Nessa)
  3. Black Top, No. 1 (Babel)
  4. Lafayette Gilchrist, The Go-Go Suite (Creative Differences)
  5. Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach, So Long Eric! Homage to Eric Dolphy (Intakt)
  6. Decoy & Joe McPhee, Spontaneous Combustion (OTOroku -13)
  7. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  8. Alexander Hawkins, Song Singular (Babel -13)
  9. Farmers by Nature, Love and Ghosts (AUM Fidelity)
  10. Tarbaby-Oliver Lake-Marc Ducret, Fanon (RogueArt)

REISSUES

  1. Horace Tapscott, The Giant Is Awakened (International Phonogram)
  2. Various, Creative Music Studio: Archive Selections, Vol. 1 (Innova)
  3. Steve Lacy, Avignon and After (Emanem)

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