11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016

Ballot 2016

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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