11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016

Ballot 2016

Francis Davis (Esther Boyer School of Music and Dance, Temple University)

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)

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