13th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2018

Ballot 2018

Jim Macnie (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Adam O'Farrill's Stranger Days, El Maquech (Biophilia)
  2. Miles Okazaki, Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk, Vols. 1-6 (self-released)
  3. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret, The Other Side of Air (Firehouse 12)
  4. Makaya McCraven, Universal Beings (International Anthem)
  5. Harriet Tubman, The Terror End of Beauty (Sunnyside)
  6. Bill Frisell, Music IS (Okeh)
  7. Don Byron & Aruán Ortiz, Random Dances and (A)tonalities (Intakt)
  8. Aaron Parks, Little Big (Ropeadope)
  9. JD Allen, Love Stone (Savant)
  10. Andrew Cyrille, Lebroba (ECM)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. Amarcord Nino Rota (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  3. Charlie Haden & Brad Mehldau, Long Ago and Far Away (Impulse!)

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