11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017

Ballot 2017

Martin Longley (DownBeat, Jazzwise, All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Erlend Apneseth Trio, Ara (Hubro)
  2. John Butcher-Damon Smith-Weasel Walter, The Catastrophe of Minimalism (Balance Point Acoustics)
  3. Brandon Seabrook, Die Trommel Fatale (New Atlantis)
  4. Black Flower, Artifacts (SDBAN -16)
  5. Arve Henriksen, Towards Language (Rune Gramophon)
  6. Harriet Tubman, Araminta (Sunnyside)
  7. Hush Point, III (Sunnyside)
  8. Led Bib, Umbrella Weather (RareNoise)
  9. Reflections in Cosmo, Eponymous (RareNoise)
  10. Gregory Lewis Organ Monk, The Breathe Suite (self-released)

REISSUES

  1. Alice Coltrane, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)
  2. Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Karyobin (Emanem)
  3. Mulatu Astatke, Mulatu of Ethiopia (Strut)

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