11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2016

Ballot 2016

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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