11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017
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Dan Buskirk (WPRB [Princeton], Fun 2 Know Podcast)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  2. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  3. William Parker Quartets, Meditation/Resurrection (AUM Fidelity)
  4. Mary Halvorson Quartet, Paimon: Book of Angels 32 (Tzadik)
  5. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die (International Anthem)
  6. Roscoe Mitchell, Bells for the South Side (ECM)
  7. James Blood Ulmer With The Thing, Baby Talk (The Thing)
  8. Hear in Now, Not Living in Fear (International Anthem)
  9. Angelica Sanchez Trio, Float the Edge (Clean Feed)
  10. Rudresh Mahanthappa & the Indo-Pak Coalition, Agrima (Mahanthappa)

REISSUES

  1. Alice Coltrane, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)
  2. Alice Babs & Duke Ellington, Serenade to Sweden (Real Gone Music)
  3. various, Spiritual Jazz Volume 7 - Islam (Jazzman)

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John Chacona (Erie [PA] Times-News)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matt Mitchell, A Pouting Grimace (Pi)
  2. Tomas Fujiwara, Triple Double (Firehouse 12)
  3. Matt Mitchell, Førage (Screwgun)
  4. Craig Taborn, Daylight Ghosts (ECM)
  5. Mike Reed, Flesh & Bone (482 Music)
  6. Eric Revis, Sing Me Some Cry (Clean Feed)
  7. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  8. Mary Halvorson Quartet, Paimon: Book of Angels 32 (Tzadik)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith, Najwa (TUM)
  10. Matt Wilson, Matt Wilson's Honey and Salt (Palmetto)

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Nate Chinen (WRGO, NPR Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ron Miles, I Am a Man (Yellowbird)
  2. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  3. Miguel Zenón, Tipico (Miel)
  4. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue)
  5. Jason Moran, Bangs (Yes)
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, A Rift In Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
  7. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die (International Anthem)
  8. Matt Mitchell, Førage (Screwgun)
  9. Nate Smith, Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere (Ropeadope)
  10. David Virelles, Gnosis (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  2. Keith Jarrett, A Multitude of Angels (ECM)
  3. Jaco Pastorius, Truth, Liberty & Soul (Resonance)

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Sharonne Cohen (DownBeat, JazzTimes, VICE/Noisey)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

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Troy Collins (Point of Departure, All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Parker Quartets, Meditation/Resurrection (AUM Fidelity)
  2. The Jazz Passengers, Still Life With Trouble (Thirsty Ear)
  3. Mike Reed, Flesh & Bone (482 Music)
  4. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  5. Mark Dresser Seven, Sedimental You (Clean Feed)
  6. Ben Allison, Layers of the City (Sonic Camera)
  7. Tomas Fujiwara, Triple Double (Firehouse 12)
  8. Harriet Tubman, Araminta (Sunnyside)
  9. Matthew Shipp Trio, Piano Song (Thirsty Ear )
  10. Pat Martino, Formidable (HighNote)

REISSUES

  1. John McLaughlin, Where Fortune Smiles (Esoteric)
  2. Sun Ra, Discipline 27-II (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  3. Hal Russell NRG Ensemble, Hal Russell NRG Ensemble + Charles Tyler (Nessa)

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Thomas Conrad (JazzTimes, Stereophile, New York City Jazz Record, All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. John Vanore, Stolen Moments: Celebrating Oliver Nelson (Acoustical Concepts)
  2. Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet, December Avenue (ECM)
  3. Stefano Battaglia, Pelagos (ECM)
  4. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  5. Alan Broadbent With the London Metropolitan Orchestra, Developing Story (Eden River)
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, A Rift In Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
  7. SFJazz Collective, Music of Miles Davis & Original Compositions (SFJazz)
  8. Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan, Small Town (ECM)
  9. Charles Lloyd New Quartet, Passin' Thru (Blue Note)
  10. Frank Kimbrough, Solstice (Pirouet)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Evans, Another Time: The Hilversun Concert (Resonance)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  3. Keith Jarrett, A Multitude of Angels (ECM)

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J.D. Considine (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fabian Almazan & Rhizome, Alcanza (Biophilia)
  2. Linda May Han Oh, Walk Against Wind (Biophilia)
  3. Martial Solal & Dave Liebman, Masters in Bordeaux (Sunnyside)
  4. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  5. Gary Peacock Trio, Tangents (ECM)
  6. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  7. Chris Speed Trio, Platinum on Tap (Intakt)
  8. Tigran Hamasyan, An Ancient Observer (Nonesuch)
  9. David Virelles, Gnosis (ECM)
  10. Tim Armacost, Time Being (Whirlwind)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Evans Trio, On a Monday Evening (Fantasy)
  2. Alice Coltrane, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)
  3. David Liebman & Joe Lovano, Compassion: The Music of John Coltrane (Resonance)

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Mark Corroto (All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matthew Shipp Trio, Piano Song (Thirsty Ear )
  2. Noah Preminger, Meditations on Freedom (Dry Bridge)
  3. Cortex, Avant-Garde Party Music (Clean Feed)
  4. Mike Reed, Flesh & Bone (482 Music)
  5. Kirk Knuffke, Cherryco (SteepleChase)
  6. Matt Wilson, Matt Wilson's Honey and Salt (Palmetto)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith, Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (TUM)
  8. Eric Revis, Sing Me Some Cry (Clean Feed)
  9. Ivo Perelman-Matthew Shipp-Nate Wooley, Philosopher's Stone (Leo)
  10. Bobby Selvaggio Transcendental Orchestra, Quantum Man (Dot Time)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  2. Albert Ayler, Copenhagen Live 1964 (Hatology)
  3. Harold Land, A New Shade of Blue (We Want Sounds)

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Kevin Coultas (WXOX / artxfm.com, Mingle)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  2. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  3. Amir ElSaffar & Rivers of Sound, Not Two (New Amsterdam)
  4. Craig Taborn, Daylight Ghosts (ECM)
  5. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Morphogenesis (Pi)
  6. André Matos, Múquina (Robalo Music -16)
  7. Fabian Almazan & Rhizome, Alcanza (Biophilia)
  8. Roots Magic, Last Kind Words (Clean Feed)
  9. Eivind Opsvik, Overseas V (Loyal Label)
  10. Alex Cline, Oceans of Vows (Cryptogramophone)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus Sextet, Copenhagen 1964 (Hi Hat)
  2. Bill Evans, Another Time: The Hilversun Concert (Resonance)
  3. Tony Williams Lifetime, Live in New York 1969 (Hi Hat)

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Michael Coyle (WRCU)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Uwe Oberg-Rudi Mahall-Michael Greiner, Lacy Pool 2 (Leo)
  2. Sex Mob, Cultural Capital (Rex -16)
  3. Virginia Schenck, Aminata Moseka (Airborne Ecstacy)
  4. Tardo Hammer, Swinging on a Star (Cellar Live)
  5. Tomoko Omura, Post Bop Gypsies (Inner Circle)
  6. Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet, December Avenue (ECM)
  7. Stephen Riley & Peter Zak, Deuce (SteepleChase)
  8. 3 Divas, 3 Divas (Diva)
  9. Daniel Weltlinger, Samoreau: Tribute to the Fans of Django Reinhardt (DMG)
  10. various, Jazz Loves Disney 1 (Decca France)

REISSUES

  1. Wild Bill Davison, Danish Sessions (Storyville)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  3. Harry South, The Songbook (Rhythm & Blues)

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Raul da Gama (JazzDaGama (Global Music Media))

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  2. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith, Najwa (TUM)
  4. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Morphogenesis (Pi)
  5. Henrique Eisenmann, The Free Poetics of Henrique Eisenmann (Red Piano)
  6. Matt Mitchell, A Pouting Grimace (Pi)
  7. Kate Gentile, Mannequins (Skirl)
  8. Amok Amor, We Know Not What We Do (Intakt)
  9. João Paulo Esteves da Silva-Mário Franco-Samuel Rohrer, Brightbird (Arjunamusic)
  10. Tomas Fujiwara, Triple Double (Firehouse 12)

REISSUES

  1. Jaco Pastorius, Truth, Liberty & Soul (Resonance)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  3. Sonny Clark Trio, The 1960 Sessions (Tompkins Square)

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Francis Davis (Village Voice, Temple University)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kirk Knuffke, Cherryco (SteepleChase)
  2. Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan, Small Town (ECM)
  3. Roscoe Mitchell, Bells for the South Side (ECM)
  4. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Morphogenesis (Pi)
  5. Matthew Shipp Trio, Piano Song (Thirsty Ear )
  6. Dave Douglas, Little Giant Still Life (Greenleaf)
  7. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  8. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Music of John Lewis (Blue Engine)
  9. Ron Miles, I Am a Man (Yellowbird)
  10. Ingrid Laubrock, Serpentines (Intakt -16)

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. Oscar Pettiford Nonet/Big Band/Sextet, New York City 1955-1958 (Uptown Jazz)

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Anthony Dean-Harris (Nextbop, KRTU San Antonio, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Linda May Han Oh, Walk Against Wind (Biophilia)
  2. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, The Centennial Trilogy (Ropeadope)
  3. Rotem Sivan, Antidote (Aima)
  4. Aaron Parks, Find the Way (ECM)
  5. Nicole Mitchell & Haki R. Madhubuti, Liberation Narratives (Third World Press)
  6. Miles Okazaki, Trickster (Pi)
  7. Psychic Temple, IV (Joyful Noise)
  8. Dan Tepfer Trio, Eleven Cages (Sunnyside)
  9. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  10. Phronesis-Julian Argüelles-Frankfurt Radio Big Band, The Behemoth Edition ()

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Sorcerer (Columbia)

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Steve Dollar

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

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Laurence Donohue-Greene (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Anthony Braxton, Solo (Victoriaville) 2017 (Victo)
  2. The Necks, Unfold (Ideologic Organ)
  3. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  4. Gunter Baby Sommer, Le Piccole Cose (Intuition)
  5. Sam Newsome & Jean-Michel Pilc, Magic Circle (Some New Music)
  6. Charles Lloyd New Quartet, Passin' Thru (Blue Note)
  7. Aruán Ortiz, Cub(an)ism (Intakt)
  8. Philipp Gerschlauer-David Fiuczynski-Jack DeJohnette-Matt Garrison-Giorgi Mikadze, Mikrojazz!: Neue Expressionistische Musik (RareNoise)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith, Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (TUM)
  10. Gebhard Ullman-Oliver Potratz-Eric Schaefer, Das Kondensat (Why Play Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Ella Fitzgerald, Ella at Zardi's (Verve)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  3. Sonny Clark Trio, The 1960 Sessions (Tompkins Square)

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Troy Dostert (All About Jazz, Free Jazz Collective)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  2. Stephan Crump-Ingrid Laubrock-Cory Smythe, Planktonic Finales (Intakt)
  3. Craig Taborn, Daylight Ghosts (ECM)
  4. Fabian Almazan & Rhizome, Alcanza (Biophilia)
  5. Nick Mazzarella & Tomeka Reid, Signaling (Nessa)
  6. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  7. Trespass Trio, Spirit of Pitesti (Clean Feed)
  8. Chamber 4, City of Light (Clean Feed)
  9. Tomas Fujiwara, Triple Double (Firehouse 12)
  10. Trio Heinz Herbert, The Willisau Concert (Intakt)

REISSUES

  1. Sun Ra, Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection (Strut)
  2. Pharoah Sanders, Tauhid/Jewels of Thought/Summun Bukmun Umyun (Anthology)
  3. Alice Coltrane, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)

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Alain Drouot (Downbeat, WNUR-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lisa Mezzacappa, AvantNOIR (Clean Feed)
  2. Angles 9, Disappeared Behind the Sun (Clean Feed)
  3. Tom Rainey Obbligato, Float Upstream (Intakt)
  4. Simona Premazzi, Outspoken (PRE)
  5. Jane Ira Bloom, Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson (Outline)
  6. Dave Douglas, Little Giant Still Life (Greenleaf)
  7. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Crop Circles (Relative Pitch)
  8. Uwe Oberg-Rudi Mahall-Michael Greiner, Lacy Pool 2 (Leo)
  9. Henri Texier, 30 Ans Concert Anniversaire (Label Bleu)
  10. Tiger Trio (Myra Melford-Joelle Leandre-Nicole Mitchell), Unleashed (RogueArt -16)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  2. Sun Ra, The Magic City (Cosmic Myth)
  3. various, Workshop de Lyon: 40e Anniversaire (Bisou)

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Ken Dryden (New York City Jazz Record, Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dial & Oatts-Rich DeRosa-WDR Big Band, Rediscovered Ellington (Zoho)
  2. Terry Gibbs, 92 Years Young: Jammin' at the Gibbs House (Whaling City Sound)
  3. Alan Broadbent With the London Metropolitan Orchestra, Developing Story (Eden River)
  4. Hal Galper & the Youngbloods, Live at the COTA Jazz Festival (Origin)
  5. Sam Newsome & Jean-Michel Pilc, Magic Circle (Some New Music)
  6. Dominique Eade & Ran Blake, Town and Country (Sunnyside)
  7. Ed Palermo Big Band, The Great Un-American Songbook Volumes I & II (Cuneiform)
  8. Rebecca Kilgore & Bernd Lhotzky, This and That (Arbors)
  9. Bobby Watson, Made in America (Smoke Sessions)
  10. Zaid Nasser, The Stroller (SteepleChase)

REISSUES

  1. Oscar Pettiford Nonet/Big Band/Sextet, New York City 1955-1958 (Uptown Jazz)
  2. Dick Hyman, Solo at the Sacramento Jazz Festival 1983-1988 (Arbors)
  3. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)

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Shannon J. Effinger (DownBeat, Pitchfork)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nicholas Payton, Afro-Caribbean Mixtape (Paytone)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, A Rift In Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
  3. Kamasi Washington, Harmony of Difference (Young Turks)
  4. Dayna Stephens, Gratitude (Contagious)
  5. Sean Jones, Live From Jazz at the Bistro (Mack Avenue)
  6. Tony Allen, The Source (Blue Note)
  7. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue)
  8. Antonio Sánchez, Bad Hombre (CAM Jazz)
  9. Linda May Han Oh, Walk Against Wind (Biophilia)
  10. Thundercat, Drunk (Brainfeeder)

REISSUES

  1. Alice Coltrane, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)
  2. Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane, Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (Craft)
  3. various, Blue Note Review Volume One: Peace, Love & Fishing (Blue Note)

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Donald Elfman (New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lena Bloch & Feathery, Heart Knows (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  2. Cowboys and Frenchmen, Bluer Than You Think (OutsideIn Music)
  3. Byron Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra, Book of Rhapsodies Vol. II (Accurate)
  4. Laszlo Gardony, Serious Play (Sunnyside)
  5. Yoko Miwa Trio, Pathways (Ocean Blue Tear Music)
  6. Vadim Neselovskyi Trio, Get Up and Go (Jazz Family/Neuklang)
  7. Alex Goodman, Second Act (Lyte)
  8. John Vanore, Stolen Moments: Celebrating Oliver Nelson (Acoustical Concepts)
  9. Jason Anick & Jason Yeager, United (Inner Circle Music)
  10. Rez Abbasi, Unfiltered Universe (Whirlwind)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  2. Bill Evans, Another Time: The Hilversun Concert (Resonance)
  3. Eddie Daniels and Roger Kellaway, Just Friends: Live at the Village Vanguard (Resonance)

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