Ballot 2016

NEW RELEASES

1. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
2. Donny McCaslin, Beyond Now (Motéma)
3. Norah Jones, Day Breaks (Blue Note)
4. Julian Lage, Arclight (Mack Avenue)
5. Charles Lloyd, I Long to See You (Blue Note)
6. Dave Holland-Chris Potter-Lionel Loueke-Eric Harland, Aziza (Dare2)
7. Laurence Hobgood, Honor Thy Fathers (Circumstantial)
8. Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone (Pi)
9. Robert Glasper Experiment, ArtScience (Blue Note)
10. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)

REISSUES

1. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)
2. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)

VOCAL

• Norah Jones, Day Breaks (Blue Note)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• Ryan Keberle, Azul Infinito (Greenleaf)

Note: Ballot split vote for no. 2 with David Bowie, Blackstar; points to McCaslin. Ballot also listed Gregory Porter, Take Me to the Alley for Vocal, but Norah Jones appeared in ranked list higher.