11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017

Ballot 2017

Bob Blumenthal (freelance)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jane Ira Bloom, Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson (Outline)
  2. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Morphogenesis (Pi)
  3. Matt Wilson, Matt Wilson's Honey and Salt (Palmetto)
  4. Miguel Zenón, Tipico (Miel)
  5. Chris Speed Trio, Platinum on Tap (Intakt)
  6. Craig Taborn, Daylight Ghosts (ECM)
  7. Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Incidentals (ECM)
  8. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith, Najwa (TUM)
  10. Anouar Brahem-Dave Holland-Jack DeJohnette-Django Bates, Blue Maqams (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Wynton Kelly, Unissued in Boston (Phono)
  2. various, Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49 (Mosaic)
  3. Oscar Pettiford Nonet/Big Band/Sextet, New York City 1955-1958 (Uptown Jazz)

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