11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017

Ballot 2017

Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal, Daily Beast, Jazziz, Artinfo: Blu Notes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Virelles, Gnosis (ECM)
  2. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  3. Eddie Palmieri, Sabiduria (Ropeadope)
  4. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Morphogenesis (Pi)
  5. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  6. Roscoe Mitchell, Bells for the South Side (ECM)
  7. Nicholas Payton, Afro-Caribbean Mixtape (Paytone)
  8. Bohemian Trio, Okónkolo (Innova)
  9. Fred Hersch, Open Book (Palmetto)
  10. Ambrose Akinmusire, A Rift In Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  2. Alice Coltrane, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)
  3. Jaco Pastorius, Truth, Liberty & Soul (Resonance)

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