13th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2018

Ballot 2018

Dan Ouellette (DownBeat, Billboard, QWEST.TV, The Absolute Sound, ZEALnyc)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sons of Kemet, Your Queen Is a Reptile (Impulse!)
  2. Lionel Loueke, The Journey (Aparte)
  3. Mark Turner & Ethan Iverson, Temporary Kings (ECM)
  4. The Nels Cline 4, Currents Constellations (Blue Note)
  5. Aaron Parks, Little Big (Ropeadope)
  6. Mary Halvorson, Code Girl (Firehouse 12)
  7. Stefon Harris & Blackout, Sonic Creed (Motéma)
  8. Don Byron & Aruán Ortiz, Random Dances and (A)tonalities (Intakt)
  9. Fred Hersch Trio, Live in Europe (Palmetto)
  10. José James, Lean on Me (Blue Note)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN

Note: Vocal on ballot -- Luciana Souza, The Book of Longing (Sunnyside) -- changed due to ballot priority.