13th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2018

Ballot 2018

Simon Rentner (WBGO's The Checkout)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Makaya McCraven, Universal Beings (International Anthem)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Origami Harvest (Blue Note)
  3. Aaron Parks, Little Big (Ropeadope)
  4. Kamasi Washington, Heaven and Earth (Young Turks)
  5. Dan Tepfer, Natural Machines (self-released)
  6. Mary Halvorson, Code Girl (Firehouse 12)
  7. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  8. Medeski Martin & Wood and Alarm Will Sound, Omnisphere (Indirecto)
  9. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret, The Other Side of Air (Firehouse 12)
  10. Thiefs, Graft (Le Greffe) (Jazz & People)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. Erroll Garner, Nightconcert (Mack Avenue)
  3. Sun Ra, Astro Black (Modern Harmonic)

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