11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016

Ballot 2016

Bob Blumenthal (freelance)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto)
  2. Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter the PlusTet (Firehouse 12)
  3. Renee Rosnes, Written in the Rocks (Smoke Sessions)
  4. Giovanni Guidi, Ida Lupino (ECM)
  5. Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
  6. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  8. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Andando el Tiempo (ECM)
  9. Ken Schaphorst, How to Say Goodbye (JCA)
  10. Kenny Barron, Book of Intuition (Impulse!)

REISSUES

  1. Count Basie & Lester Young, Classic 1936-1947 Studio Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Albert Ayler, European Radio Studio Recordings 1964 (Hatology)
  3. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)

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