11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016
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Phil Freeman (Burning Ambulance, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. JD Allen, Americana (HighNote)
  2. Black Bombaim and Peter Brotzmann (Shhpuma)
  3. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
  4. Donny McCaslin, Beyond Now (Motéma)
  5. John Raymond, Real Feels (Shifting Paradigm)
  6. Freddie Hendrix, Jersey Cat (Sunnyside)
  7. Jeremy Pelt, jiveculture (HighNote)
  8. Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
  9. Battle Trance, Blade of Love (New Amsterdam)
  10. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. various, Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49 (Mosaic)
  2. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
  3. Sonny Rollins/Horace Silver, Zurich 1959 (TCB)

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David Fricke (Rolling Stone, Mojo, The Writer's Block on Sirius XM Radio)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  3. Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau, Nearness (Nonesuch)
  4. Bad Plus, It's Hard (Okeh)
  5. Noah Preminger, Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (self-released)
  6. Masabumi Kikuchi, Black Orpheus (ECM)
  7. Frank Kimbrough, Solstice (Pirouet)
  8. Norah Jones, Day Breaks (Blue Note)
  9. Jonathan Finlayson, Moving Still (Pi)
  10. Donny McCaslin, Beyond Now (Motéma)

REISSUES

  1. Joe Lovano, Classic! Live at Newport (Blue Note)
  2. Herbie Mann, Live at the Whisky 1969: The Unreleased Masters (Real Gone)
  3. Erroll Garner, Ready Take One (Octave/Legacy)

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Patrick Frisco (WHFR-FM [Dearborn/Detroit, MI])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Swell, Soul Travelers (Rogue Art)
  2. David Murray-Geri Allen-Teri Lyn Carrington, Perfection (Motéma)
  3. Jason Roebke, Cinema Spiral (No Business)
  4. Generations Quartet, Flow (Not Two)
  5. I.P.A., I Just Did Say Something (Cuneiform)
  6. Bobby Kapp & Matthew Shipp, Cactus (Northern Spy)
  7. Nicole Mitchell Black Earth Ensemble & Ensemble Laborintus, Moments of Fatherhood (RogueArt)
  8. Uwe Oberg & Silke Eberhard, Turns (Leo)
  9. Billy Hart & WDR Big Band, The Broader Picture (Enja/Yellowbird)
  10. Denny Zeitlin, Early Wayne (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Withdrawal (Emanem)
  2. Don Cherry-John Tchicai-Irène Schweizer-Léon Francioli-Pierre Favre, Musical Monsters: Willisau Concert (Intakt)
  3. Peter Kuhn, No Coming No Going (Living Right) (No Business)

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Jon Garelick (Boston Globe, The Arts Fuse, Jazziz, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)
  2. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
  3. Charles Lloyd, I Long to See You (Blue Note)
  4. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
  5. Melissa Aldana, Back Home (Wommusic)
  6. Jon Lundbom, 2016: EPs: Make the Magic Happen/Play All the Notes/Bring Their 'A' Game/Make the Changes (Hot Cup)
  7. Eric Hofbauer, Prehistoric Jazz Volume 3: Three Places in New England (Creative Nation Music)
  8. Ches Smith, The Bell (ECM)
  9. Noah Preminger, Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (self-released)
  10. Aruán Ortiz, Hidden Voices (Intakt)

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Richard Gehr (Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Relix)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd, I Long to See You (Blue Note)
  2. Nik Bärtsch Mobile, Continuum (ECM)
  3. Cuong Vu & Pat Metheny, Meets (Nonesuch)
  4. David Bowie, Black Star (ISO/Columbia)
  5. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)
  6. Julian Lage, Arclight (Mack Avenue)
  7. David Fiuczinski, Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian MicroJam! (RareNoise)
  8. Nate Wooley, Argonautica (Firehouse 12)
  9. Amirtha Kidambi & Elder Ones, Holy Science (Northern Spy)
  10. Cory Henry, Live in Brooklyn (Groundup)

REISSUES

  1. John Abercrombie, The First Quartet (ECM)
  2. Weather Report, The Legendary Tapes (Legacy)
  3. Sonny Sharrock, Ask the Ages (MOD Technologies)

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Andrew Gilbert (Bay Area News Group, San Francisco Chronicle)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tom Harrell, Something Gold, Something Blue (HighNote)
  2. Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto)
  3. JD Allen, Americana (HighNote)
  4. Andrew Cyrille & Bill McHenry, Proximity (Sunnyside)
  5. George Coleman, A Master Speaks (Smoke Sessions)
  6. Myra Melford & Ben Goldberg, Dialogue (BAG)
  7. Fred Hersch, Sunday Night at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
  8. Jessica Jones, Moxie (New Artists)
  9. Ken Peplowski, Enrapture (Capri)
  10. Ratatet, Arctic (Ridgeway)

REISSUES

  1. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
  2. Shirley Horn, Live at the Four Queens Live (Resonance)
  3. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)

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Ted Gioia (How to Listen to Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
  2. George Coleman, A Master Speaks (Smoke Sessions)
  3. Markus Stockhausen & Florian Weber, Alba (ECM)
  4. Brad Mehldau, Blues and Ballads (Nonesuch)
  5. Fred Hersch, Sunday Night at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
  6. Nik Bärtsch Mobile, Continuum (ECM)
  7. Craig Hartley, Books on Tape Vol. 2 (Skidoo)
  8. Bill Charlap, Notes From New York (Impulse!)
  9. Charles Lloyd, I Long to See You (Blue Note)
  10. Melissa Aldana, Back Home (Wommusic)

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Steve Greenlee (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans (Outline)
  2. Mette Henriette, Mette Henriette (ECM -15)
  3. The Delegation, Evergreen (Canceled World) (ESP-Disk)
  4. Delfeayo Marsalis, Make American Great Again! (Troubadour Jass)
  5. Craig Hartley, Books on Tape Vol. 2 (Skidoo)
  6. Andrew Cyrille, The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  8. Richard Sussman, Evolution Suite (Zoho)
  9. Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto)
  10. JD Allen, Americana (HighNote)

REISSUES

  1. John Abercrombie, The First Quartet (ECM)
  2. Sonny Sharrock, Ask the Ages (MOD Technologies)
  3. David S. Ware & Matthew Shipp, Live in Sant'Anna Arresi 2004 (AUM Fidelity)

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George Grella (The Brooklyn Rail, The Big City Blog)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kris Davis, Duopoly (Pyroclastic)
  2. James Brandon Lewis, No Filter (BNS Sessions)
  3. Brian Charette, Once & Future (Posi-Tone)
  4. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
  5. Ches Smith, The Bell (ECM)
  6. Eric Revis, Crowded Solitudes (Clean Feed)
  7. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  8. Ross Hammond & Sameer Gupta, Upward (Big Weezus)
  9. Robin Eubanks Mass Line Big Band, More Than Meets the Ear (ArtistShare -15)
  10. Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, Work Songs (Motéma)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
  2. Peter Erskine, As It Was (ECM)
  3. Arthur Blythe, Lennox Avenue Breakdown/In the Tradition/Bush Baby/Blythe Spirit (BGO)

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