13th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2018

Ballot 2018

Stewart Smith (The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sons of Kemet, Your Queen Is a Reptile (Impulse!)
  2. Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, D'Agala (Intakt)
  3. William Parker, Voices Fall From the Sky (AUM Fidelity)
  4. Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg, Dirt . . . and More Dirt (Pi)
  5. Mary Halvorson, Code Girl (Firehouse 12)
  6. Nicole Mitchell, Maroon Cloud (FPE)
  7. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret, The Other Side of Air (Firehouse 12)
  8. Don Byron & Aruán Ortiz, Random Dances and (A)tonalities (Intakt)
  9. Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp, Oneness (Leo)
  10. Tyshawn Sorey, Pillars (Firehouse 12)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Choi Sun Bae Quartet, Arirang Fantasy (NoBusiness)
  2. Bobby Naughton-Leo Smith-Perry Robinson, The Haunt (NoBusiness)
  3. Milford Graves, Bäbi (Corbett vs. Dempsey)

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