11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017

Ballot 2017

Michael J. West (JazzTimes, Washington Post, Washington City Paper)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran, Bangs (Yes)
  2. Harriet Tubman, Araminta (Sunnyside)
  3. Anouar Brahem-Dave Holland-Jack DeJohnette-Django Bates, Blue Maqams (ECM)
  4. Charles Lloyd New Quartet, Passin' Thru (Blue Note)
  5. Howard Johnson & Gravity, Testimony (Tuscarora)
  6. Ron Miles, I Am a Man (Yellowbird)
  7. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  8. Gregory Lewis Organ Monk, The Breathe Suite (self-released)
  9. Billy Childs, Rebirth (Mack Avenue)
  10. Kamasi Washington, Harmony of Difference (Young Turks)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  2. Kirk Lightsey & Harold Danko, Shorter by Two (Sunnyside)

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