13th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2018

Ballot 2018

Ken Franckling (JazzTimes, Hot House, Jazz Notes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jeff Hamilton Trio, Live From San Pedro (Capri)
  2. Benjamin Boone & Philip Levine, The Poetry of Jazz (Origin)
  3. Lynne Arriale Trio, Give Us These Days (Challenge)
  4. Eric Alexander, Song of No Regrets (HighNote -17)
  5. Benito Gonzalez-Gerry Gibbs-Essiet Okon Essiet, Passion Reverence Transcendence (Whaling City Sound)
  6. Fred Hersch Trio, Live in Europe (Palmetto)
  7. Yelena Eckemoff, Desert (L&H)
  8. Mica Bethea Big Band, Suite Theory (self-released)
  9. Roxy Coss, The Future Is Female (Posi-Tone)
  10. Dongfeng Liu, China Caribe (Zoho)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. Esbjorn Svensson Trio, E.S.T. Live in London (ACT)
  3. Fred Hersch Trio, '97 @ The Village Vanguard (Palmetto)

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