Ballots 2016 [2]

NEW RELEASES

1. Angelika Niescier & Florian Weber, NYC Five (Intakt)
2. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
3. David Murray-Geri Allen-Teri Lyn Carrington, Perfection (Motéma)
4. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
5. George Lewis & Splitter Orchester, Creative Construction Set (Mikroton)
6. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
7. Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
8. Ingrid Laubrock, Serpentines (Intakt)

REISSUES

1. Rolf Kühn, Spotlights (MPS)
2. Don Cherry-John Tchicai-Irène Schweizer-Léon Francioli-Pierre Favre, Musical Monsters: Willisau Concert (Intakt)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

• Rodrigo Amado, Desire and Freedom (Not Two)
• Anthony Braxton, 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 (Firehouse 12)
• John Butcher-Thomas Lehn-Matthew Shipp, Tangle (Fataka)
• Andrew Cyrille, The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM)
• Barry Guy, The Blue Shroud (Intakt)
• Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
• Ingrid Laubrock, Serpentines (Intakt)
• Pascal Niggenkemper Le 7eme Continent, Talking Trash (Clean Feed)
• Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
• Nate Wooley, Seven Storey Mountain V (Pleasure of the Text)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

• Joe McPhee, Zurich (1979) (Astral Spirits)
• Spontaneous Music Orchestra, Search & Reflect (1973-81) (Emanem)
• Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)

VOCAL

• Anthony Braxton, Trillium J (New Braxton House)

DEBUT

• Ron Stabinsky, Free for One (Hot Cup)

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
2. Jason Moran, The Armory Concert (Band Camp)
3. Andrew Cyrille, The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM)
4. Jonathan Finlayson, Moving Still (Pi)
5. Kris Davis, Duopoly (Pyroclastic)
6. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
7. Jeff Parker, The New Breed (International Anthem)
8. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
9. Logan Richardson, Lift (Blue Note)
10. Stephan Crump, Rhombal (Papillon Sounds)

REISSUES

1. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
2. Keith Jarrett, A Multitude of Angels (ECM)
3. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)

VOCAL

• Norah Jones, Day Breaks (Blue Note)

DEBUT

• George Burton, The Truth of What I Am > The Narcissist (Inner Circle)

LATIN

• Pedrito Martinez, Habana Dreams (Motéma)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

• JD Allen, Americana (HighNote)
• Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)
• Avishai Cohen, Into the Silence (ECM)
• Kris Davis, Duopoly (Pyroclastic)
• Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
• Tom Harrell, Something Gold, Something Blue (HighNote)
• Marquis Hill, The Way We Play (Concord Jazz)
• Julian Lage, Arclight (Mack Avenue)
• Alfredo Rodriguez, Tocororo (Mack Avenue)
• Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg, Celestial Weather (TUM -15)

REISSUES

1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)
2. Wes Montgomery, One Night in Indy (Resonance)
3. John Abercrombie, The First Quartet (ECM)

VOCAL

• Gregory Porter, Take Me to the Alley (Blue Note)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• Brian Lynch, Madera Latino (Hollistic Musicworks)

NEW RELEASES

1. BassDrumBone, The Long Road (Auricle)
2. David Murray-Geri Allen-Teri Lyn Carrington, Perfection (Motéma)
3. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
4. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
5. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
6. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
7. Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, Otis Was a Polar Bear (Royal Potato Family)
8. Cuong Vu & Pat Metheny, Meets (Nonesuch)
9. Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter the PlusTet (Firehouse 12)
10. Jason Roebke, Cinema Spiral (No Business)

REISSUES

1. Arthur Blythe, Lennox Avenue Breakdown/In the Tradition/Bush Baby/Blythe Spirit (BGO)
2. Albert Ayler, European Radio Studio Recordings 1964 (Hatology)
3. George Lewis, The Solo Trombone Record (Delmark/Sackville -15)

VOCAL

• Macy Gray, Stripped (Chesky)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• Sao Paulo Underground, Cantos Invisiveis (Cuneiform)

NEW RELEASES

1. Wolfgang Muthspiel, Rising Grace (ECM)
2. Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
3. Avishai Cohen, Into the Silence (ECM)
4. Charles Lloyd, I Long to See You (Blue Note)
5. Sonny Rollins, Holding the Stage: Road Shows Vol. 4 (Doxy/OKeh)
6. Brad Mehldau, Blues and Ballads (Nonesuch)
7. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
8. Frank Kimbrough, Solstice (Pirouet)
9. Branford Marsalis, Upward Spiral (OKeh)
10. Francesco Diodati, Yellow Squeeds: Flow, Home (Auand)

REISSUES

1. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)
2. Woody Shaw & Louis Hayes, The Tour Volume One (HighNote)
3. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)

VOCAL

• Branford Marsalis, Upward Spiral (OKeh)

DEBUT

• Philipe Côté, Lungta (Mythology)

LATIN

• Brian Lynch, Madera Latino (Hollistic Musicworks)

NEW RELEASES

1. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
2. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Andando el Tiempo (ECM)
3. Guillermo Klein, Los Gauchos V (Sunnyside)
4. Ryan Keberle, Azul Infinito (Greenleaf)
5. Dave Holland-Chris Potter-Lionel Loueke-Eric Harland, Aziza (Dare2)
6. David Virelles, Antenna (ECM)
7. Ingrid & Christine Jensen, Infinitude (Whirlwind)
8. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
9. Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
10. Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda, Duet (Long Song)

REISSUES

1. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
2. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
3. Peter Erskine, As It Was (ECM)

VOCAL

• Camila Meza, Traces (Sunnyside)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• Guillermo Klein, Los Gauchos V (Sunnyside)

NEW RELEASES

1. Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto)
2. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
3. Jeff Lederer, Brooklyn Blowhards (Little (i) Music)
4. Matt Parker, Present Time (BYNK)
5. Cortex, Live in New York (Clean Feed)
6. Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone (Pi)
7. Noah Preminger, Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (self-released)
8. Fred Hersch, Sunday Night at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
9. Jon Lundbom, 2016: EPs: Make the Magic Happen/Play All the Notes/Bring Their 'A' Game/Make the Changes (Hot Cup)
10. Franklin Kiermyer, Closer to the Sun (Mobility)

REISSUES

1. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
2. Sun Ra, The Intergalactic Thing (Roaratorio)
3. Albert Ayler, European Radio Studio Recordings 1964 (Hatology)

VOCAL

• Norah Jones, Day Breaks (Blue Note)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• Cyro Baptista, BlueFly (Tzadik)

NEW RELEASES

1. Camila Meza, Traces (Sunnyside)
2. Wolfert Brederode, Black Ice (ECM)
3. Greg Ward & 10 Tongues, Touch My Beloved's Thought (Greenleaf)
4. Daniel Foose, Of Water and Ghosts (BJU)
5. Erik Friedlander, Rings (Skipstone)
6. Daniel Freedman, Imagine That (Anzic)
7. Julien Pontvianne, Abhra (Auand)
8. Jonathan Finlayson, Moving Still (Pi)
9. Per Oddvar Johansen, Let's Dance (Edition)
10. Emil de Waal, Old News (DME)

REISSUES

1. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
2. Keith Jarrett, A Multitude of Angels (ECM)
3. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)

VOCAL

• Camila Meza, Traces (Sunnyside)

DEBUT

• Daniel Foose, Of Water and Ghosts (BJU)

LATIN

• Camila Meza, Traces (Sunnyside)

NEW RELEASES

1. Charles Ruggiero, As Heard on TV (Rondette)
2. Frank Catalano, Bye, Bye Blackbird (Ropeadope)
3. I.C.P., Restless in Pieces (ICP)
4. Dave Stryker, Eight Track II (Strikezone)
5. Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, I Want That Sound! (Innova)
6. John Scofield, Country for Old Men (Impulse!)
7. Ed Palermo, One Child Left Behind (Cuneiform)
8. Craig Hartley, Books on Tape Vol. 2 (Skidoo)
9. Rolf Sturm, Young (Water Street Music)
10. Yoni Kretzmer, Yoni Kretzmer Five (OutNow)

REISSUES

1. Sal Mosca, Too Marvelous for Words (Cadence)
2. Count Basie & Lester Young, Classic 1936-1947 Studio Sessions (Mosaic)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
2. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
3. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
4. Barry Guy, The Blue Shroud (Intakt)
5. Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
6. Fire! Orchestra, Ritual (Rune Grammofon)
7. Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone (Pi)
8. Raphael Malfliet, Noumenon (Ruweh)
9. Burning Ghosts, Burning Ghosts (Orenda)
10. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)

REISSUES

1. Don Cherry-John Tchicai-Irène Schweizer-Léon Francioli-Pierre Favre, Musical Monsters: Willisau Concert (Intakt)
2. Tyshawn Sorey, Koan+ (482)
3. Wadada Leo Smith, Reflectativity (Tzadik)

VOCAL

• Wendy Pedersen & Jim Gasior, We Two (Jimmy G's House of Sound)

DEBUT

• Raphael Malfliet, Noumenon (Ruweh)

LATIN

• Alfredo Rodriguez, Tocororo (Mack Avenue)

NEW RELEASES

1. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
2. Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
3. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
4. Sonny Rollins, Holding the Stage: Road Shows Vol. 4 (Doxy/OKeh)
5. Aruán Ortiz, Hidden Voices (Intakt)
6. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
7. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
8. Michael Bisio & Kirk Knuffke, Row for William O (Relative Pitch)
9. JD Allen, Americana (HighNote)
10. Julian Lage, Arclight (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

1. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
2. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)
3. Mahalia Jackson, Moving Up a Little Higher (Shanachee)

VOCAL

• Catherine Russell, Harlem on My Mind (Jazz Village)

DEBUT

• Ron Stabinsky, Free for One (Hot Cup)

LATIN

• Orbert Davis, Havana Blue (CD Baby)

NEW RELEASES

1. Stephan Crump, Rhombal (Papillon Sounds)
2. Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, Work Songs (Motéma)
3. Gregoire Maret, Wanted (Sunnyside)
4. Phronesis, Parallax (Edition)
5. Jeff Parker, The New Breed (International Anthem)
6. Logan Richardson, Lift (Blue Note)
7. Corey King, Lashes (Ropeadope)
8. Ben Wendel, What We Bring (Motéma)
9. Mast, Love and War (Alpha Pup)
10. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)

REISSUES

• No choice.

VOCAL

• Branford Marsalis, Upward Spiral (OKeh)

DEBUT

• Horace Bray, Dreamstate (self-released)

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
2. Aruán Ortiz, Hidden Voices (Intakt)
3. Fanfare Ciocarlia, Onwards to Mars! (Aphalt Tango)
4. ERGO, As Subtle as Tomorrow (Cunneiform)
5. Christy Doran, Belle Epoque (Between the Lines)
6. I Am Three, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus (Leo)
7. Bushman's Revenge, Jazz, Fritt Etter Hukommelsen (Rune Grammophon)
8. Steve Swell, Soul Travelers (Rogue Art)
9. Fire!, She Sleeps, She Sleeps (Rune Grammofon)
10. Jorma Tapio & Kaski, Ghatika (Karkia Mistika)

REISSUES

1. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
2. various, The Savory Collection, Volume 1: Body and Soul: Coleman Hawkins & Friends (Apple Music)
3. Cadentia Nova Danica, August 1966 Jazzhus Montmartre (Storyville)

VOCAL

• René Marie, Sound of Red (Motéma)

DEBUT

• Raymond McMorrin, Ray Mack (Truth Revolution)

LATIN

• Brian Lynch, Madera Latino (Hollistic Musicworks)

NEW RELEASES

1. Claudia Quintet, Super Petite (Cuneiform)
2. I Am Three, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus (Leo)
3. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
4. I.P.A., I Just Did Say Something (Cuneiform)
5. Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
6. John Zorn [Craig Taborn-Christian McBride-Tyshawn Sorey], Flaga: The Book of Angels, Volume 27 (Tzadik)
7. Eve Risser White Desert Orchestra, Les Deux Versants Se Regardent (Clean Feed)
8. Angelika Niescier & Florian Weber, NYC Five (Intakt)
9. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
10. Susana Santos Silva, Life and Other Transient Storms (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

1. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
2. Peter Brötzmann-Fred Hopkins-Rashied Ali, Songlines (Trost)
3. Peter Erskine, As It Was (ECM)

VOCAL

• Tord Gustavsen, What Was Said (ECM)

DEBUT

• Naomi Moon Siegel, Shoebox View (self-released)

LATIN

• Sao Paulo Underground, Cantos Invisiveis (Cuneiform)

NEW RELEASES

1. Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans (Outline)
2. Damana [Dag Magnus Narvesen], Cornua Copiae (Clean Feed)
3. Aruán Ortiz, Hidden Voices (Intakt)
4. Quinsin Nachoff, Flux (Mythology)
5. Dave Douglas & Frank Woeste, Dada People (Greenleaf)
6. Sylvie Courvoisier-Mark Feldman-Ikue Mori-Evan Parker, Miller's Tale (Intakt)
7. Sons of Kemet, Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do (Naim -15)
8. Jonathan Finlayson, Moving Still (Pi)
9. Paal Nilssen-Love Large Unit, Ana (PNL)
10. David Murray-Geri Allen-Teri Lyn Carrington, Perfection (Motéma)

REISSUES

1. Barney Wilen, Auto Jazz (Tragic Destiny of Lorenzo Bandini) (MPS)
2. Chris McGregor, Jazz/The African Sound (Jazzman Holy Grail)
3. Martial Solal, Trio (Vogue Legacy)

VOCAL

• Camille Bertault, En Vie (Sunnyside)

DEBUT

• Damana [Dag Magnus Narvesen], Cornua Copiae (Clean Feed)

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. various, Oscar, With Love (Two Lions)
2. Dave Liebman, Expansions Live (Whaling City Sound)
3. Denny Zeitlin, Early Wayne (Sunnyside)
4. Michael Dease, Father Figure (Posi-Tone)
5. Don Friedman, Remembering Attila Zoller (Edition Longplay)
6. Don Friedman, Strength and Sanity (Newvelle)
7. Rale Micic-John Abercrombie-Peter Bernstein-Lage Lund, Inspired (ArtistShare)
8. Jim Rotondi, Dark Blue (Smoke Sessions)
9. Ken Peplowski, Enrapture (Capri)
10. Steve Kuhn, At This Time. . . (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

1. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
2. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)
3. Svend Asmussen, The Incomparable Fiddler: 100 Years (Storyville)

VOCAL

• Kendra Shank & Geoffrey Keezer, Half Moon: Live in New York (Ride Symbol)

DEBUT

• Eugenia Choe, Magic Light (SteepleChase Lookout)

LATIN

• Marcos Valera, San Ygneacio (Origin)

NEW RELEASES

1. Lina Nyberg, Aerials (Hoob Jazz)
2. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
3. Dwiki Dharmawan, Pasar Klewer (MoonJune)
4. Miroslav Vitous, Music of Weather Report (ECM)
5. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
6. Damana [Dag Magnus Narvesen], Cornua Copiae (Clean Feed)
7. Jakob Bro, Streams (ECM)
8. Pat Metheny, Unity Sessions (Nonesuch)
9. Chat Noir, None Thoughts for One Word (RareNoise)
10. Vasil Hadzimanov, Alive (MoonJune)

REISSUES

1. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
2. John Coltrane, The Atlantic Years in Mono (Rhino)
3. Peter Erskine, As It Was (ECM)

VOCAL

• Lina Nyberg, Aerials (Hoob Jazz)

DEBUT

• Moksha, The Beauty of an Arbitrary Moment (Jazzland (Norway))

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
2. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
3. Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau, Nearness (Nonesuch)
4. Eric Revis, Crowded Solitudes (Clean Feed)
5. Charles Lloyd, I Long to See You (Blue Note)
6. Jonathan Finlayson, Moving Still (Pi)
7. Anna Webber's Simple Trio, Binary (Skirl)
8. Tom Harrell, Something Gold, Something Blue (HighNote)
9. Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda, Duet (Long Song)
10. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)

REISSUES

1. Fred Hersch, Sarabande (Sunnyside)
2. Joe Lovano, Classic! Live at Newport (Blue Note)
3. Keith Jarrett, A Multitude of Angels (ECM)

VOCAL

• Steve Grover, Variations (Red Piano)

DEBUT

• Matt Mayhall, Tropes (Skirl)

LATIN

• Pedrito Martinez, Habana Dreams (Motéma)

NEW RELEASES

1. Dave Holland-Chris Potter-Lionel Loueke-Eric Harland, Aziza (Dare2)
2. Scott Hamilton & Harry Allen, Live! (GAC)
3. Tierney Sutton, The Sting Variations (BFM Jazz)
4. Gregory Porter, Take Me to the Alley (Blue Note)
5. Sonny Rollins, Holding the Stage: Road Shows Vol. 4 (Doxy/OKeh)
6. Roberta Piket, One for Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland (Thirteenth Note)
7. Greg Abate & Phil Woods, Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's (Whaling City Sound)
8. Noah Preminger, Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (self-released)
9. Horace Bray, Dreamstate (self-released)
10. Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto)

REISSUES

1. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)
2. Lyle Mays, The Ludwigsburg Concert (SWR Jazzhaus)
3. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)

VOCAL

• Tierney Sutton, The Sting Variations (BFM Jazz)

DEBUT

• Horace Bray, Dreamstate (self-released)

LATIN

• Jane Bunnett & Maqueque, Oddara (Linus Entertainment)