9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014

Ballot 2014

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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