13th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2018

Ballot 2018

Duck Baker (The Absolute Sound, New York Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill, Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus (Pi)
  2. Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg, Dirt . . . and More Dirt (Pi)
  3. Barre Phillips, End to End (ECM)
  4. Marty Krystall-Mike Alvidrez-Fritz Wise, Marty's Mode (K2B2)
  5. Matthew Shipp Quartet, Sonic Fiction (ESP-Disk)
  6. Howard Alden-Marty Krystall-Buell Neidlinger, The Happenings: Music of Herbie Nichols (K2B2 -17)
  7. Megumi Yonezawa-Masa Kamaguchi-Ken Kobayashi, Boundary (ESP-Disk)
  8. Ben Goldberg & Michael Coleman, Practitioner (BAG Productions)
  9. ROVA Saxophone Quartet, In Transverse Time (Victo)
  10. Mary Halvorson, Code Girl (Firehouse 12)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. The Savory Collection 1935-1940 (Mosaic)
  3. Thelonioous Monk, Mønk (Gearbox)

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN

Note: Ballot listed additional (uncounted) Reissue/Historical albums: 4. Randy Weston, Sound (African Rhythms); 5. Cecil Taylor, Conversations With Tony Oxley (Jazzwerkstatt); 6. Grant Green, Funk in France: From Paris to Antibes 1969-1970 (Resonance); 7. Anthony Braxton, Sextet (Parker) 1993 (New Braxton House).