11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016

Ballot 2016

Thomas Staudter (DownBeat, The (Croton) Gazette)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Andando el Tiempo (ECM)
  2. Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto)
  3. Tom Harrell, Something Gold, Something Blue (HighNote)
  4. Logan Richardson, Lift (Blue Note)
  5. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  6. Renee Rosnes, Written in the Rocks (Smoke Sessions)
  7. Joe Chambers, Landscapes (Savant)
  8. Mike Holober, Balancing Act (Palmetto)
  9. Marquis Hill, The Way We Play (Concord Jazz)
  10. Jane Bunnett & Maqueque, Oddara (Linus Entertainment)

REISSUES

  1. Count Basie & Lester Young, Classic 1936-1947 Studio Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
  3. Peter Erskine, As It Was (ECM)

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