11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017

Ballot 2017

Stewart Smith (The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  2. Roscoe Mitchell, Bells for the South Side (ECM)
  3. Irreversible Entanglements, Irreversible Entanglements (International Anthem)
  4. Pat Thomas, Elephant Clock of Al Jazari (Otoroku)
  5. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die (International Anthem)
  6. Hear in Now, Not Living in Fear (International Anthem)
  7. Gonçalo Almeida-Rodrigo Amado-Marco Franco, The Attic (NoBusiness)
  8. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  9. William Parker Quartets, Meditation/Resurrection (AUM Fidelity)
  10. Amir ElSaffar & Rivers of Sound, Not Two (New Amsterdam)

REISSUES

  1. Alice Coltrane, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)
  2. Byron & Gerald, Unity (Eremite)
  3. Brother Ah, Divine Music (Manufactured)

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LATIN