11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016

Ballot 2016

Will Layman (PopMatters)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jonathan Finlayson, Moving Still (Pi)
  2. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, The Abyssinian Mass (Blue Engine)
  3. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
  4. Greg Ward & 10 Tongues, Touch My Beloved's Thought (Greenleaf)
  5. Cuong Vu & Pat Metheny, Meets (Nonesuch)
  6. Stephan Crump, Rhombal (Papillon Sounds)
  7. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
  8. Ryan Keberle, Azul Infinito (Greenleaf)
  9. Kris Davis, Duopoly (Pyroclastic)
  10. Uri Caine, Calibrated Thickness (816)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
  2. Arthur Blythe, Lennox Avenue Breakdown/In the Tradition/Bush Baby/Blythe Spirit (BGO)
  3. Charlie Parker, Unheard Bird, The Unissued Takes (Verve)

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