11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016

Ballot 2016

Howard Mandel (DownBeat, ArtsJournal/JazzBeyondJazz, NPR)

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. Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone (Pi)
  5. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
  6. Herlin Riley, New Directions (Mack Avenue)
  7. Robert Dick, Our Cells Know (Tzadik)
  8. Jonathan Finlayson, Moving Still (Pi)
  9. Greg Ward & 10 Tongues, Touch My Beloved's Thought (Greenleaf)
  10. David Murray-Geri Allen-Teri Lyn Carrington, Perfection (Motéma)

REISSUES

  1. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Don Cherry-John Tchicai-Irène Schweizer-Léon Francioli-Pierre Favre, Musical Monsters: Willisau Concert (Intakt)
  3. Albert Ayler, Bells/Prophecy (ESP Disk)

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