Ballot 2018

NEW RELEASES

1. Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Awase (ECM)
2. Ron English, Dance/Cry/Dance (Detroit Music Factory)
3. Rich Halley 3, The Literature (Pine Eagle)
4. Makaya McCraven, Universal Beings (International Anthem)
5. Ken Thomson, Sextet (New Focus/Panoramic)
6. Chris Pasin, Ornettiquette (Planet Arts)
7. Amos Hoffman & Noam Lemish, Pardes (self-released)
8. Gayelynn McKinney, McKinFolk: The New Beginning (Detroit Music Factory)
9. The Carl Michel Group, Music in Motian (The Compositions of Paul Motian) (Play On)
10. John Bailey, In Real Time (Summit)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
2. Eric Dolphy, Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance)
3. Roscoe Mitchell Sextet, Sound (Delmark)

VOCAL

• Roseanna Vitro, Tell Me the Truth (Skyline)

DEBUT

• Tim Haldeman, Open Water as a Child (Woolgathering)

LATIN

• David Virelles, Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Grove), Vol. I & II (Pi)

Note: The rules favor awarding the Debut vote to John Bailey, In Real Time (Summit), but voter insists on his original selection.