11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017 |
Ballot 2017
Michael Steinman (Jazz Lives)
NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)
- The Date Brothers With Bob Barnard and Jonathan Zwartz, Just My Luck (self-released)
- Sam Braysher & Michael Kanan, Golden Earrings (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Charlie Halloran, Ce Biguine! (self-released)
- Holland-Coots Jazz Quintet, This Is So Nice It Must Be Illegal (Shane's Mohawk)
- Brooks Prumo Orchestra, Pass the Bounce (self-released)
- Hal Smith's Swing Central, Windy City Swing (Tuxedo Cat)
- Sam Taylor Quartet & Larry McKenna, Along the Way (Cellar Live)
- Twerk Thomson, Plays Unpopular Songs (Twerk-O-Phonic)
- Petra van Nuis & Andy Brown, Lessons Lyrical (String Damper)
- Martin Wheatley & Tom Langham, The Land of Might-Have-Been (Bigfoot)
REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)
- Louis Armstrong, a.o. New Orleans: Film Sountrack (Upbeat)
- Louis Armstrong, Standard Oil Sessions (Dot Time)
- Oscar Pettiford Nonet/Big Band/Sextet, New York City 1955-1958 (Uptown Jazz)
VOCAL
- Hillary Gardner & Ehud Asherie, The Late Set (Anzic)
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