11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017

Ballot 2017

Bret Saunders (Denver Post, KBCO-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Harriet Tubman, Araminta (Sunnyside)
  2. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  3. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  4. Ornette Coleman & Various Artists, Celebrate Ornette (Song X -16)
  5. Ambrose Akinmusire, A Rift In Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
  6. William Parker Quartets, Meditation/Resurrection (AUM Fidelity)
  7. Matt Mitchell, A Pouting Grimace (Pi)
  8. Tomas Fujiwara, Triple Double (Firehouse 12)
  9. Ron Miles, I Am a Man (Yellowbird)
  10. Rudresh Mahanthappa & the Indo-Pak Coalition, Agrima (Mahanthappa)

REISSUES

  1. Ornette Coleman, Ornette at 12/Crisis (Real Gone)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  3. Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Arkestra, My Brother the Wind (Cosmic Myth)

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