11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017

Ballot 2017

Howard Mandel (ArtsJournal/JazzBeyondJazz, DownBeat, NPR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ornette Coleman & Various Artists, Celebrate Ornette (Song X -16)
  2. Roscoe Mitchell, Bells for the South Side (ECM)
  3. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Morphogenesis (Pi)
  4. Gregory Lewis Organ Monk, The Breathe Suite (self-released)
  5. Lisa Mezzacappa, AvantNOIR (Clean Feed)
  6. Amir ElSaffar & Rivers of Sound, Not Two (New Amsterdam)
  7. Matt Mitchell, A Pouting Grimace (Pi)
  8. Mike Reed, Flesh & Bone (482 Music)
  9. John Beasley, MONK'estra, Vol. 2 (Mack Avenue)
  10. Mike Stern, Trip (Heads Up)

REISSUES

  1. Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly Trio, Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966) (Resonance)
  2. Albert Ayler, Copenhagen Live 1964 (Hatology)
  3. Lester Bowie, Numbers 1 and 2 (Nessa)

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