9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014
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Mark Stryker (Detroit Free Press)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Over Time: The Music of Bob Brookmeyer (Planet Arts)
  2. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  3. Tom Harrell, Trip (HighNote)
  4. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  5. Azar Lawrence, The Seeker (Sunnyside)
  6. Chick Corea, Trilogy (Stretch/Concord)
  7. Johnathan Blake, Gone But Not Forgotten (Criss Cross)
  8. Eric Revis, In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)
  9. Jeff Ballard, Time's Travels (Okeh)
  10. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  3. Herbie Hancock, Dedication (Wounded Bird)

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Dave Sumner (Bird Is the Worm, Wondering Sound)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fire! Orchestra, Enter (Rune Grammofon)
  2. Rob Mazurek & Black Cube SP, Return the Tides: Ascension Suite and Holy Ghost (Cuneiform Records)
  3. Rafael Karlen, The Sweetness of Things Half-Remembered (Pinnacles)
  4. John Ellis & Andy Bragen, MOBRO (Parade Light)
  5. Diego Barber & Craig Taborn, Tales (Sunnyside)
  6. Hans Feigenwinter, Whim of Fate (Unit)
  7. Andrea Keller, Wave Rider (Jazzhead)
  8. Angles 9, Injuries (Clean Feed)
  9. Masaa, Afkar (Traumton)
  10. Roberto Negro, Loving Suite Pour Birdy So (La Curieuse)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  3. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)

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John Szwed (Center for Jazz Studies (Columbia University), JazzStudiesOnline.org)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Marc Cary, For the Love of Abbey (Motéma -13)
  2. Russ Johnson, Still Out to Lunch (Enja)
  3. Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach, So Long Eric! Homage to Eric Dolphy (Intakt)
  4. Anna Webber, Simple (Skirl)
  5. Bad Plus, The Rite of Spring (Sony Masterworks)
  6. Denny Zeitlin, Stairway to the Stars (Sunnyside)
  7. Hafez Modirzadeh, In Convergence Liberation (Pi)
  8. Branford Marsalis, In My Solitude: Live at Grace Cathedral (Okeh)
  9. Avishai Cohen, Dark Nights (Anzic)
  10. Matt Ulery, In the Ivory (Greenleaf)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  3. Chet Baker, Italian Movies (Moochinabout)

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Jeff Tamarkin (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age! (Okeh)
  2. Jeff Ballard, Time's Travels (Okeh)
  3. Matt Wilson + John Medeski, Gathering Call (Palmetto)
  4. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  5. Kahil El'Zabar, Follow the Sun (Delmark -13)
  6. Bad Plus, Inevitable Western (Okeh)
  7. Hiromi, Alive (Telarc)
  8. Cookers, Time and Time Again (Motéma)
  9. Nels Cline Singers, Macroscope (Mack Avenue)
  10. Henry Butler & Steven Bernstein, Viper's Drag (Impulse)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Jaco Pastorius, Modern American Music . . . Period! The Criteria Sessions (Omnivore)

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Perry Tannenbaum (JazzTimes, Creative Loafing, CVNC.org, Classical Voice North America)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Andrew Hadro, For Us, the Living (Tone Rogue)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  3. Oran Etkin, Gathering Light (Motéma)
  4. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13)
  5. Jimmy Greene, Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue)
  6. Elio Villafranca, Caribbean Tinge (Motéma)
  7. Angelica Sanchez & Wadada Leo Smith, Twine Forest (Clean Feed -13)
  8. Omer Avital, New Song (Motéma)
  9. Vincent Herring, The Uptown Shuffle (Smoke Sessions)
  10. Helen Sung, Anthem for a New Day (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Evans, Symbiosis (Edel:Kultur)
  2. Various, From Europe With Jazz (MPS)
  3. Bud Powell, Birdland 1953 (ESP-Disk)

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Derek Taylor (Dusted in Exile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  2. Jason Adasiewicz, From the Region (Delmark)
  3. Matt Bauder, Nightshades (Clean Feed)
  4. Decoy & Joe McPhee, Spontaneous Combustion (OTOroku -13)
  5. Jemeel Moondoc, The Zookeeper's House (Relative Pitch)
  6. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  7. Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach, So Long Eric! Homage to Eric Dolphy (Intakt)
  8. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  9. Kidd Jordan-Peter Kowald-Alvin Fielder, Trio & Duo in New Orleans (No Business))
  10. Peter Brendler, Outside the Line (Positone)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. Bill Jennings, The Architect of Soul Jazz: Complete Early Recordings 1951-1957 (Fresh Sound)
  3. Steve Lacy, Complete Black Saint & Soul Note Quartet, Quintet, Sextet & Octet Recordings (CAM Jazz)

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Neil Tesser (ChicagoMusic.org, Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Marty Ehrlich, A Trumpet in the Morning (New World -13)
  2. Steffano Bollani, Joy in Spite of Everything (ECM)
  3. Audio One, An International Report (Audiographic)
  4. Sylvie Courvoisier, Double Windsor (Tzadik)
  5. Ken Thomson, Settle (NCM-East)
  6. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  7. Makiko Hirabayashi, Surely (Enja)
  8. Phil Markowitz & Zach Brock, Perpetuity (Dot Time)
  9. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  10. Spin Quartet, In Circles (Origin)

REISSUES

  1. Various, Billy Strayhorn: Out of the Shadows (Storyville)
  2. Louis Armstrong, Complete Newport 1956 & 1958 (Mosaic Vinyl)
  3. Thelonious Monk, Paris 1969 (Blue Note -13)

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Anastasia Tsiouclas (NPR Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  3. Fred Hersch, Floating (Palmetto)
  4. Jimmy Greene, Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue)
  5. Pat Metheny, Kin (Nonesuch)
  6. Jeff Ballard, Time's Travels (Okeh)
  7. Archie Shepp, I Hear the Sound (Archi Ball)
  8. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  9. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)
  10. Paul Bley, Play Blue: Oslo Concert (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  3. Sun Ra, In the Orbit of Ra (Strut)

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Michael Ullman (Fanfare, Arts Fuse)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  2. Chick Corea, Trilogy (Stretch/Concord)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  4. Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer, Wiring (Intakt)
  5. Garrison Fewell, Evolving Strategies (Not Two)
  6. Dave Douglas, Riverside (Greenleaf)
  7. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  8. Kenny Garrett, Pushing the World Away (Mack Avenue -13)
  9. Paul Bley, Play Blue: Oslo Concert (ECM)
  10. Vijay Iyer, Mutations (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)
  2. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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Ludwig vanTrikt (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jane Ira Bloom, Sixteen Sunsets (Outline/Pure Audio -13)
  2. Hal Galper, O's Time (Origin)
  3. Jeff Colella & Putter Smith, Lotus Blossom (Capri)
  4. David Weiss, When Words Fail (Motéma)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  6. Paul Giallorenzo, Force Majeure (Delmark)
  7. Pierre Dørge, Tjak Tjaka Tchicai (SteepleChase)
  8. Jason Roebke, High Red Center (Delmark)

REISSUES

  1. Horace Tapscott, The Giant Is Awakened (International Phonogram)
  2. Don Pullen, Richard's Tune (Delmark)
  3. Various, Ultimate New Orleans Brass: Second Line Funk! (Mardi Gras)

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George Varga (U-T San Diego, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sonny Rollins, Roadshows Volume 3 (Doxy/Okeh)
  2. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  3. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  4. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music)
  5. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  6. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  7. Dave Douglas, Riverside (Greenleaf)
  8. Holly Hofmann, Low Life: The Alto Flute Project (Capri)
  9. Mary Halvorson-Michael Formanek-Tomas Fujiwara, Thumbscrew (Cuneiform)
  10. Kronomorfic [David Borgo & Paul Pellegrin], Entangled (OA2)

REISSUES

  1. Herbie Hancock, The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) (Warner Bros.)
  2. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance)

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Seth Colter Walls (Wondering Sound, Rhapsody)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman, Mise en Abime (Pi)
  2. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  3. Trio 3 & Vijay Iyer, Wiring (Intakt)
  4. Harold Mabern, Right on Time (Smoke Sessions)
  5. Kris Davis, Waiting for You to Grow (Clean Feed)
  6. Roscoe Mitchell, Conversations II (Wide Hive)
  7. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  8. Miguel Zenón, Identities Are Changeable (Miel Music)
  9. Ken Thomson, Settle (NCM-East)
  10. Anthony Braxton, Trio (New Haven) 2013 (New Braxton House)

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Ken Waxman (The New York City Jazz Record, Jazz Word)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Yoni Kretzmer-Pascal Niggenkemper-Weasel Walter, Protest Music (OutNow)
  2. Paul Giallorenzo, Force Majeure (Delmark)
  3. Kyle Bruckmann, . . . Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (SingleSpeed Music)
  4. Sakata/Lonberg-Holm/Gutvik/Nilssen-Love, The Cliff of Time (PNL)
  5. Alexander Hawkins, Step Wide, Step Deep (Babel)
  6. François Carrier-Michel Lambert-Alexey Lapin, The Russia Concerts Volume 1/The Russia Concerts Volume 2 (FMR)
  7. Rodrigo Amado & Jeb Bishop, The Flame Alphabet (NotTwo)
  8. Mars Williams-Ingebrigt Håker Flaten-Tim Daisy, Moments Form (Idyllic Noise)
  9. Ab Baars-Meinard Kneer-Bill Elgart, Give No Quarter (Evil Rabbit)
  10. Torben Snekkestad & Barry Guy, Slip, Slide and Collide (Maya)

REISSUES

  1. Jimmy Giuffre, New York Concerts (Elemental)
  2. Frank Lowe, Out Loud (Triple Point)
  3. Peter Kowald, Discography (Jazzwerkstatt)

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Bob Weinberg (Jazziz, Jazz & Blues Florida)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Andy Bey, Pages From an Imaginary Life (HighNote)
  2. Ivo Perelman & Karl Berger, Reverie (Leo)
  3. John Escreet, Sound, Space and Structures (Sunnyside)
  4. Omer Avital, New Song (Motéma)
  5. James Brandon Lewis, Divine Travels (Okeh)
  6. Eric Revis, In Memory of Things Yet Seen (Clean Feed)
  7. Jerry Bergonzi, Intersecting Lines (Savant)
  8. Jon Irabagon, It Takes All Kinds (Irabbagast/Jazzwerkstatt)
  9. Steve Wilson & Lewis Nash, Duologue (MCG Jazz)
  10. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Don Cherry, Live in Stockholm (Caprice)
  3. Charlie Haden & Jim Hall, Charlie Haden & Jim Hall (Impulse!)

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Jason Weiss (Les Allumé du Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sonny Simmons, Leaving Knowledge, Wisdom and Brilliance/Chasing the Bird? (Improvising Beings)
  2. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  3. Hafez Modirzadeh, In Convergence Liberation (Pi)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith, The Great Lakes Suites (TUM)
  5. Ideal Bread, Beating the Teens (Cuneiform)
  6. The Microscopic Septet, Manhattan Moonrise (Cuneiform)
  7. Jean-Luc Danna, No Stress (Notes d'Azur)
  8. Jacques Coursil & Alan Silva, Free Jazz Art (RogueArt)
  9. Kalle Kalima, Buñuel de Jour (TUM)
  10. John Escreet, Sound, Space and Structures (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Quincy Jones, Live in Paris: 5-7-9 Mars/19 Avril 1960 (rémeaux & Associés))
  2. Steve Lacy, Avignon and After (Emanem)
  3. Bud Powell, Birdland 1953 (ESP-Disk)

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Ken Weiss (Cadence, Jazz Inside)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Aurora Trio [Agusti Fernandez-Barry Guy-Ramon Lopez], A Moment's Liberty (Maya)
  2. Ken Thomson, Settle (NCM-East)
  3. Connie Crothers, Concert in Paris (New Artists)
  4. Christoph Irniger Pilgrim, Italian Circus Story (Intakt)
  5. Phil Haynes, No Fast Food/In Concert (CornerStoreJazz)
  6. Burton Greene, Burton's Time (CIMP)
  7. David Haney, Solo (CIMP)
  8. Pete Robbins, Pyramid (Hate Laugh Music)
  9. Tyshawn Sorey, Alloy (Pi)
  10. Yeahwon Shin, Lua Ya (ECM)

REISSUES

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Jon Wertheim (Compare/Contrast, Nextbop.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Blue (Hot Cup)
  2. Spike Wilner, Live at Small's (SmallsLive)
  3. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  4. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  5. Joshua Redman, Trios Live (Nonesuch)
  6. Joris Roelofs, Alens Deliberating (Pirouet)
  7. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  8. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  9. Tineke Postma & Greg Osby, Sonic Halo (Challenge)
  10. Steve Cardenas, Melody in a Dream (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Lee Morgan & Clifford Jordan, Live in Baltimore 1968 (Fresh Sound)
  2. Ron Carter, Where? (Concord)
  3. Joe Henderson, Mirror, Mirror (Edel)

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Michael J. West (Washington City Paper, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  2. Christine Jensen, Habitat (Justin Time -13)
  3. Otis Brown III, The Thought of You (Blue Note)
  4. Diego Barber & Craig Taborn, Tales (Sunnyside)
  5. Orrin Evans, Liberation Blues (Smoke Session)
  6. Reginald Cyntje, Elements of Life (self-released)
  7. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  8. David Weiss, When Words Fail (Motéma)
  9. Fabian Almazan, Rhizome (Blue Note/ArtistShare)
  10. Antonio Adolfo, Rio, Choro, Jazz (AAM)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Frank Lowe, Out Loud (Triple Point)

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Josef Woodard (DownBeat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mark Turner, Lathe of Heaven (ECM)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  3. Jason Moran, All Rise: A Joyful Elegy to Fats Waller (Blue Note)
  4. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden, Last Dance (ECM)
  5. Brian Blade, Landmarks (Blue Note)
  6. Ideal Bread, Beating the Teens (Cuneiform)
  7. Tineke Postma & Greg Osby, Sonic Halo (Challenge)
  8. Kenny Barron & Dave Holland, The Art of Conversation (Impulse)
  9. Bill Frisell, Guitar in the Space Age! (Okeh)
  10. Spunk, Adventura Botanica (Rune Grammofon)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, Offering: Live at Temple University (Impulse/Resonance)
  2. Don Pullen, Richard's Tune (Delmark)
  3. Sam Rivers, Contrasts (ECM)

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Alan Young (Lucid Culture)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Hafez Modirzadeh, In Convergence Liberation (Pi)
  2. Armen Donelian, Sayat-Nova: Songs of My Ancestors (Sunnyside)
  3. Orrin Evans, Mother's Touch (Posi-Tone)
  4. The Ocular Concern, Sister Cities (PJCE)
  5. The Puppeteers, The Puppeteers (Puppet's)
  6. Marc Ribot, Live at the Village Vanguard (Pi)
  7. Sarah Manning, Harmonious Creature (Posi-Tone)
  8. Carlo Costa, Natura Morta (Decay)
  9. Kenny Shanker, Action City (Posi-Tone)
  10. The Microscopic Septet, Manhattan Moonrise (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis f. John Coltrane, All of You: The Last Tour 1960 (Acrobat)
  2. SOS, Looking for the Next One (Cuneiform -13)
  3. John Lurie, The Invention of Animals (Amulet)

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