| 11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016 |
Ballot 2016
Russ Musto (New York City Jazz Record, DownBeat)
NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)
- George Cables, The George Cables Songbook (HighNote)
- Will Calhoun, Celebrating Elvin Jones (Motéma)
- Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
- Heads of State, Search for Peace (Smoke Sessions -15)
- Dave Holland-Chris Potter-Lionel Loueke-Eric Harland, Aziza (Dare2)
- Charles Lloyd, I Long to See You (Blue Note)
- Brian Lynch, Madera Latino (Hollistic Musicworks)
- Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau, Nearness (Nonesuch)
- Edward Simon, Latin American Songbook (Sunnyside)
- Randy Weston, The African Nubian Suite (African Rhythms)
REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)
- Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)
- Shirley Horn, Live at the Four Queens Live (Resonance)
- Woody Shaw & Louis Hayes, The Tour Volume One (HighNote)
VOCAL
- Gregory Porter, Take Me to the Alley (Blue Note)
DEBUT
- Jerome Jennings, The Beast (Iola)
LATIN
- Brian Lynch, Madera Latino (Hollistic Musicworks)