11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016
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Dave Sumner (Bird Is the Worm, Bandcamp)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter the PlusTet (Firehouse 12)
  2. Jon Armstrong, Burnt Hibiscus (Orenda)
  3. Eric Hofbauer, Prehistoric Jazz Volume 3: Three Places in New England (Creative Nation Music)
  4. Michael Blake, Fulfillment (Songlines)
  5. Jonathan Finlayson, Moving Still (Pi)
  6. Laurent Rochelle Okidoki, Si tu regardes (Linoleum)
  7. Moonbow, When the Sleeping Fish Turn Red and the Skies Start to Sing in C Major I Will Follow You Till the End (ILK)
  8. Psychic Temple, Plays Music for Airports (Joyful Noise)
  9. Ian Carey, Interview Music (A Suite for Quintet+1) (Kabocha)
  10. Stijn Demuynck, Pouancé (self-released)

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John Szwed (The Wire, JazzStudiesOnLine)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  3. Tom Harrell, Something Gold, Something Blue (HighNote)
  4. Logan Richardson, Lift (Blue Note)
  5. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)
  6. Allen Lowe, In the Diaspora of the Diaspora: Man With Guitar: Where's Robert Johnson? (Constant Sorrow -15)
  7. Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone (Pi)
  8. BassDrumBone, The Long Road (Auricle)
  9. Andrew Cyrille, The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM)
  10. Friends and Neighbors, What's Wrong (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)
  2. James P. Johnson, Classic James P. Johnson Sessions (Mosaic -15)
  3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)

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Jeff Tamarkin (Best Classic Bands)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Uri Caine, Calibrated Thickness (816)
  2. Esperanza Spalding, Emily's D+Evolution (Concord)
  3. Julian Lage, Arclight (Mack Avenue)
  4. Terry Adams, Talk Thelonious (Clang!)
  5. Cuong Vu & Pat Metheny, Meets (Nonesuch)
  6. Georgie Fame, Swan Songs (Three Line Whip)
  7. Adam O'Farrill, Stranger Days (Sunnyside)
  8. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
  9. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, The Abyssinian Mass (Blue Engine)
  10. Arturo O'Farrill, Boss Level (Zoho)

REISSUES

  1. Lyle Mays, The Ludwigsburg Concert (SWR Jazzhaus)
  2. John Coltrane, The Atlantic Years in Mono (Rhino)
  3. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)

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Derek Taylor (Dusted)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  2. Evan Parker, As the Wind (Psi)
  3. Barry Guy, The Blue Shroud (Intakt)
  4. BassDrumBone, The Long Road (Auricle)
  5. Joe McPhee, Flowers (Cipsela)
  6. Avishai Cohen, Into the Silence (ECM)
  7. Stirrup, Cut (Clean Feed)
  8. Tom Harrell, Something Gold, Something Blue (HighNote)
  9. Peter Kuhn, The Other Shore (No Business)
  10. Ellery Eskelin, Willisau Live (hatOLOGY)

REISSUES

  1. William Hooker, Light: The Early Years 1975-1989 (No Business)
  2. TEST, Always Coming From the Love Side (Eremite)
  3. Albert & Emil Mangelsdorff, Early Discoveries (SWR Jazz Haus/Naxos)

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Neil Tesser (Jazziz, WFMT Jazz Network)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Greg Ward & 10 Tongues, Touch My Beloved's Thought (Greenleaf)
  2. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  3. Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra, Ubi Zaa (SteepleChase)
  4. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
  5. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Callas (Leo -15)
  6. Richard Poole-Marilyn Crispell-Gary Peacock, In Motion (Intakt)
  7. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)
  8. Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom, Otis Was a Polar Bear (Royal Potato Family)
  9. Denny Zeitlin, Early Wayne (Sunnyside)
  10. Nicole Mitchell-Tomeka Reid-Mike Reed, Artifacts (482 Music -15)

REISSUES

  1. various, Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49 (Mosaic)
  2. Keith Jarrett, A Multitude of Angels (ECM)
  3. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)

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Michael Ullman (Fanfare, Arts Fuse)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kenny Barron, Book of Intuition (Impulse!)
  2. John Scofield, Country for Old Men (Impulse!)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  4. Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans (Outline)
  5. Kenny Garrett, Do Your Dance (Mack Avenue)
  6. Mark Dresser, Sedimental You (Clean Feed)
  7. Tigran Hamasyan, Mockroot (Nonesuch)
  8. Andrew Cyrille, The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM)
  9. Kris Davis, Duopoly (Pyroclastic)
  10. Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)

REISSUES

  1. Jim Hall & Red Mitchell, Valse Hot: Sweet Basil 1978 (Artists Share)
  2. Charlie Parker, Unheard Bird, The Unissued Takes (Verve)
  3. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)

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Ludwig vanTrikt (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Peter Evans & Alfred Vogel, Il Piccolo Incidente (Boomslang)
  2. Rich Halley, The Outlier (Pine Eagle)
  3. Ivo Perelman-Karl Berger-Gerald Cleaver, The Art of the Improv Trio Volume 1 (Leo)
  4. Matt Parker, Present Time (BYNK)
  5. Jaimeo Brown Transcendence, Work Songs (Motéma)
  6. Jeremy Pelt, jiveculture (HighNote)
  7. David Murray-Geri Allen-Teri Lyn Carrington, Perfection (Motéma)
  8. Tom Harrell, Something Gold, Something Blue (HighNote)
  9. Lorenzo De Finti, We Live Here (Losen)
  10. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Chris McGregor, Jazz/The African Sound (Jazzman Holy Grail)
  2. Cannonball Adderley, The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free (Real Gone)

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Seth Colter Walls (Pitchfork, The Guardian)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Amirtha Kidambi & Elder Ones, Holy Science (Northern Spy)
  2. Anthony Braxton, 3 Compositions (EEMHM) 2011 (Firehouse 12)
  3. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  4. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)
  5. Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone (Pi)
  6. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
  7. Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
  8. Jason Moran, The Armory Concert (Band Camp)
  9. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  10. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Andando el Tiempo (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. various, The Savory Collection, Volume 1: Body and Soul: Coleman Hawkins & Friends (Apple Music)
  2. Ray Charles, Swiss Radio Days Vol. 41: Zurich 1961 (Montreux Jazz)
  3. Circle, Circle 1: Live in Germany Concert [digital] (Concord Music Group)

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Ken Waxman (Jazz Word, New York City Jazz Record, Whole Note)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Alexander Hawkins, Trio (Alexander Hawkins Music -15)
  2. Anna Webber's Simple Trio, Binary (Skirl)
  3. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)
  4. Nicole Mitchell-Tomeka Reid-Mike Reed, Artifacts (482 Music -15)
  5. Umlaut Big Band, Euro Swing Vol. 2 (Umlaut)
  6. Gresnscó Open Collective, Derengé/Dawn (Slam/Hunnia)
  7. Christian Lillinger, Grund (Pirouet)
  8. Steve Swell's Kende Dreams, Hommage à Bartok (Silkheart -15)
  9. MMM Quartet, Oakland/Lisboa (RogueArt)
  10. Yoni Kretzmer, Yoni Kretzmer Five (OutNow)

REISSUES

  1. Daunik Lazro-Joëlle Léandre-George Lewis, Enfances 8 Janv. 1984 (Fou)
  2. Don Cherry-John Tchicai-Irène Schweizer-Léon Francioli-Pierre Favre, Musical Monsters: Willisau Concert (Intakt)
  3. Joe McPhee, Alone Together (Corbett vs. Dempsey)

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Bob Weinberg (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dr. Lonnie Smith, Evolution (Blue Note)
  2. Ralph Peterson's Aggregate Prime, Dream Deferred (Onyx)
  3. Aruán Ortiz, Hidden Voices (Intakt)
  4. Uri Caine, Calibrated Thickness (816)
  5. Richard Poole-Marilyn Crispell-Gary Peacock, In Motion (Intakt)
  6. Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Tales of the Unforeseen (TUM -15)
  7. Will Calhoun, Celebrating Elvin Jones (Motéma)
  8. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Andando el Tiempo (ECM)
  9. Noah Preminger, Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (self-released)
  10. Denny Zeitlin, Early Wayne (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  2. various, Creative Music Studio Archive Selections Volume 2 (Planet Arts)
  3. David S. Ware & Matthew Shipp, Live in Sant'Anna Arresi 2004 (AUM Fidelity)

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Jason Weiss (Les Allumés du Jazz, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Barry Guy, The Blue Shroud (Intakt)
  2. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
  3. Tyshawn Sorey, The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi)
  4. Kristin Nordeval-Ida Heidel-Nusch Werchowska, Parrhésie (Losen)
  5. Norris Trio, Tonadoda (enonane)
  6. Luis Conde-Fabiana Galante-Frode Gjerstad, Give and Take (FMR)
  7. Pablo Diaz, Destemporizador (NendoDango)
  8. Fred Frith, Another Day in Fucking Paradise (Intakt)
  9. Ellen Bodtker & Jan Erik, Vold Sommeren (der ute Losen)
  10. Sylvie Courvoisier-Mark Feldman-Ikue Mori-Evan Parker, Miller's Tale (Intakt)

REISSUES

  1. Joëlle Léandre, No Comment (Fou)
  2. Daunik Lazro-Joëlle Léandre-George Lewis, Enfances 8 Janv. 1984 (Fou)

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Ken Weiss (Cadence, Jazz Inside)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jim Black, The Constant (Intakt)
  2. Mary Halvorson, Away With You (Firehouse 12)
  3. Matt Wilson's Big Happy Family, Beginning of a Memory (Palmetto)
  4. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  5. Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans (Outline)
  6. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  7. Barry Guy-Marilyn Crispell-Paul Lytton, Deep Memory (Intakt)
  8. Dan Weiss, Sixteen: Drummers Suite (Pi)
  9. Marcos Varela, San Ygnacio (Origin)
  10. Dave Holland-Chris Potter-Lionel Loueke-Eric Harland, Aziza (Dare2)

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Michael J. West (Washington City Paper, Washington Post, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brandee Younger, Wax and Wane (Revive)
  2. Aruán Ortiz, Hidden Voices (Intakt)
  3. David Murray-Geri Allen-Teri Lyn Carrington, Perfection (Motéma)
  4. George Burton, The Truth of What I Am > The Narcissist (Inner Circle)
  5. Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone (Pi)
  6. Robert Glasper Experiment, ArtScience (Blue Note)
  7. Laurence Hobgood, Honor Thy Fathers (Circumstantial)
  8. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)
  9. Jeff Guthery, Black Paintings (self-released)
  10. ELEW, And to the Republic (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Brother Ah and the Sounds of Awareness, Key to Nowhere (Manufactured)
  2. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  3. Count Basie & Lester Young, Classic 1936-1947 Studio Sessions (Mosaic)

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Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz, Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nels Cline, Lovers (Blue Note)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  3. Fred Hersch, Sunday Night at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
  4. Mark Dresser, Sedimental You (Clean Feed)
  5. Darrell Katz & Oddsong, Jailhouse Doc with Holes in Her Socks (JCA)
  6. Jeff Lederer, Brooklyn Blowhards (Little (i) Music)
  7. Jane Ira Bloom, Early Americans (Outline)
  8. Nicole Saphos, Tiptoe (self-released)
  9. Frank Kimbrough, Solstice (Pirouet)
  10. Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus, The Distance (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Cadentia Nova Danica, August 1966 Jazzhus Montmartre (Storyville)
  3. Finn Von Eyben, Plays Finn Von Eyben: Finn Von Eyben Workshop & Radiojazzgruppen 1966-1967 (Storyville)

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Carlo Wolff (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Bowie, Black Star (ISO/Columbia)
  2. Krakauer's Ancestral Groove, Checkpoint (Table Pounding)
  3. Dave Douglas, Dark Territory (Greenleaf)
  4. Andrew Cyrille, The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith, America's National Parks (Cuneiform)
  6. George Delancey, George Delancey (self-released)
  7. Bret Higgins, Atlas Revolt (Tzadik)
  8. Dominick Farinacci, Short Stories (Mack Avenue)
  9. ELEW, And to the Republic (Sunnyside)
  10. Jamie Saft's New Zion, Sunshine Seas (Rare Noise)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)
  2. Sonny Rollins/Horace Silver, Zurich 1959 (TCB)
  3. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)

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Josef Woodard (DownBeat, Jazziz, All About Jazz, Los Angeles Times, Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth and Conversations With Charlie Haden)

NEW RELEASES

  1. John Scofield, Country for Old Men (Impulse!)
  2. David Bowie, Black Star (ISO/Columbia)
  3. Charlie Haden/Liberation Music Orchestra, Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings (Impulse!)
  4. Steve Lehman, Sélébéyone (Pi)
  5. Kris Davis, Duopoly (Pyroclastic)
  6. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  7. Supersilent, 13 (Smalltown Supersound)
  8. Dave Holland-Chris Potter-Lionel Loueke-Eric Harland, Aziza (Dare2)
  9. Marius Neset, Snowmelt (ACT)
  10. Brad Mehldau, 10 Years Solo Live (Nonesuch -15)

REISSUES

  1. Albert Ayler, Bells/Prophecy (ESP Disk)
  2. Bill Evans, Some Other Time (Resonance)
  3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)

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Ron Wynn (Nashville Scene, Tennessee Tribune, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Ravi Coltrane, In Movement (ECM)
  2. Gregory Porter, Take Me to the Alley (Blue Note)
  3. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  4. George Coleman, A Master Speaks (Smoke Sessions)
  5. Heads of State, Search for Peace (Smoke Sessions -15)
  6. Henry Threadgill Double Up Ensemble, Old Locks and Irregular Verbs (Pi)
  7. Marquis Hill, The Way We Play (Concord Jazz)
  8. Kandace Springs, Soul Eyes (Blue Note)
  9. Antonio Sanchez, The Meridian Suite (CAM Jazz -15)
  10. Alfredo Rodriguez, Tocororo (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

  1. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Stan Getz, Moments in Time (Resonance)
  3. Miles Davis, Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 (Columbia Legacy)

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Scott Yanow (DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record, Jazziz, Los Angeles Jazz Scene, Syncopated Times, Jazz Rag)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Andy Schumm & Enrico Tomasso, When Louis Met Bix (Lake)
  2. Cookers, The Call of the Wild and Peaceful Heart (Smoke Sessions)
  3. Fat Babies, Solid Gassuh (Delmark)
  4. Brian Bromberg, Full Circle (Artistry)
  5. Alyssa Allgood, Out of the Blue (Jeru Jazz)
  6. Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble, Rising Colossus (Edgetone)
  7. Derek Brown, Beatbox Sax (self-relesed)
  8. Lori Bell, Brooklyn Dreaming (self-released)
  9. Stryker/Slagle Band Expanded, Routes (Strikezone)
  10. Eric Alexander, Second Impression (HighNote)

REISSUES

  1. Count Basie & Lester Young, Classic 1936-1947 Studio Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)
  3. Lennie Tristano, Chicago, April 1951 (Uptown -14)

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Alan Young (Lucid Culture)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Real Enemies (New Amsterdam)
  2. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke (ECM)
  3. Ran Blake, Ghost Tones (A-Side -15)
  4. JD Allen, Americana (HighNote)
  5. Sarah Bernstein, Still/Free (Leo)
  6. Tom Csatari, Outro Waltz (Tiny Montgomery -15)
  7. Satoko Fujii & Joe Fonda, Duet (Long Song)
  8. Mara Rosenbloom, Prairie Burn (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  9. Noah Preminger, Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (self-released)
  10. Cameron Mizell, Negative Space (Destiny)

REISSUES

  1. Arthur Doyle, First House (Amish)
  2. Larry Young, In Paris: The ORTF Recordings (Resonance)
  3. Thad Jones & Mel Lewis, All My Yesterdays (Resonance)

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