Ballot 2017

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

• Jane Ira Bloom, Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson (Outline)
• Anat Cohen Tentet, Happy Song (Anzic)
• Echoes of Swing, Bix: A Tribute to Bix Beiderbecke (ACT -16)
• Howard Johnson & Gravity, Testimony (Tuscarora)
• Rudresh Mahanthappa & the Indo-Pak Coalition, Agrima (Mahanthappa)
• Roscoe Mitchell, Bells for the South Side (ECM)
• Courtney Pine, Black Notes From the Deep (Freestyle)
• Wadada Leo Smith, Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (TUM)
• Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
• Deanna Witkowski, Makes the Heart to Sing: Jazz Hymns (Tilapia)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

• Kenny Dorham, K.D. Is Here: New York City 1962 & 1966 (Uptown Jazz)
• Oscar Pettiford Nonet/Big Band/Sextet, New York City 1955-1958 (Uptown Jazz)
• Flip Phillips, Your Place or Mine? (Jump/Delmark)

VOCAL

• Gabriele Tranchina, Of Sailing Ships and the Stars in Your Eyes (Rainchant Eclectic)

DEBUT

• Brett Gold New York Jazz Orchestra, Dreaming Big (Goldfox)

LATIN

• Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet, Diablo en Brooklyn (Saponegro)