11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016

Ballot 2016

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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