| 10th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2015 |
Ballot 2015
Kevin Whitehead (Fresh Air [NPR], TONE Audio)
NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)
- Geof Bradfield, Our Roots (Origin)
- Eddie Henderson, Collective Portrait (Smoke Sessions)
- Ku-umba Frank Lacy & the Mingus Big Band, Mingus Sings (Sunnyside)
- Tony Malaby, Scorpion Eater (Clean Feed -14)
- Nicole Mitchell-Tomeka Reid-Mike Reed, Artifacts (482 Music)
- Gary Peacock, Now This (ECM)
- Dafnis Prieto, Triangles and Circles (Dafnison)
- Tomeka Reid, Quartet (Thirsty Ear)
- Cecile McLorin Salvant, For One to Love (Mack Avenue)
- Jen Shyu, Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi)
REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)
- John Carter, Echoes from Rudolph's (NoBusiness)
- Evan Parker, Monoceros (Psi)
- Lennie Tristano, Chicago April 1951 (Uptown -14)
VOCAL
- Jen Shyu, Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi)
DEBUT
- Tomeka Reid, Quartet (Thirsty Ear)
LATIN
- Dafnis Prieto, Triangles and Circles (Dafnison)
Note: Debut vote awarded; ballot reads: Tiffany Austin, Nothing but Soul