Ballot 2016

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

• Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, Otis Was a Polar Bear (Royal Potato Family)
• Peter Brendler, Message in Motion (Posi-Tone)
• Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
• Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
• Hearts & Minds, Hearts & Minds (Astral Spirits)
• Aruán Ortiz, Hidden Voices (Intakt)
• Eric Revis, Crowded Solitudes (Clean Feed)
• Jason Roebke, Cinema Spiral (No Business)
• Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
• Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

• Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
• Erroll Garner, Ready Take One (Octave/Legacy)

VOCAL

• Sara Serpa & Andre Matos, All the Dreams (Sunnyside)

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• Guillermo Klein, Los Gauchos V (Sunnyside)

Note: Original ballot listed Brad Mehldau, 10 Years Solo Live as reissue/historical; ineligible there, so 2 points awarded as new.