13th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2018
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Jon Solomon (Westword)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joshua Redman, Still Dreaming (Nonesuch)
  2. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  3. Aaron Parks, Little Big (Ropeadope)
  4. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams, Vanished Gardens (Blue Note)
  5. Marcin Wasilewski Trio, Live (ECM)
  6. Bobo Stenson Trio, Contra La Indecisión (ECM)
  7. The Nels Cline 4, Currents Constellations (Blue Note)
  8. Gilad Hekselman, Ask for Chaos (Hexophonic Music/Motéma)
  9. Kenny Werner, The Space (Pirouet)
  10. Jamie Saft Quartet, Blue Dream (RareNoise)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. Miles Davis & John Coltrane, The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Grant Green, Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry's (Resonance)

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W. Royal Stokes (WRoyalStokes.com, JJA News)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Mark Stryker (Jazz From Detroit (University of Michigan Press, summer 2019))

NEW RELEASES

  1. Eddie Palmieri, Full Circle (Ropeadope)
  2. JD Allen, Love Stone (Savant)
  3. Renee Rosnes, Beloved of the Sky (Smoke Sessions)
  4. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  5. Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg, Dirt . . . and More Dirt (Pi)
  6. Christian McBride, Christian McBride's New Jawn (Mack Avenue)
  7. John Scofield, Combo 66 (Verve)
  8. Miles Okazaki, Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk, Vols. 1-6 (self-released)
  9. Marquis Hill, Modern Flows, Vol. 2 (Black Unlimited Music Group)
  10. Miguel Zenón, Yo Soy La Tradición (Miel)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Terry Pollard, A Detroit Jazz Legend (Fresh Sound)
  2. Charles Mingus, Jazz in Detroit/Strata Concert Gallery/46 Selden (BBE)
  3. Erroll Garner, Nightconcert (Mack Avenue)

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Dave Sumner (Bird Is the Worm, Bandcamp)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bobby Previte, Rhapsody (RareNoise)
  2. Walking Distance, Freebird by Walking Distance feat. Jason Moran (Sunnyside)
  3. Quin Kirchner, The Other Side of Time (Astral Spirits)
  4. Thumbscrew, Ours/Theirs (Cuneiform)
  5. Makaya McCraven, Universal Beings (International Anthem)
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, Origami Harvest (Blue Note)
  7. Marije Van Dijk, The Stereography Project Feat Jeff Taylor and Katell Keinig (Hert)
  8. Roller Trio, New Devices (Edition)
  9. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret, The Other Side of Air (Firehouse 12)
  10. Juan Ibarra, NauMay (self-released)

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John Szwed (The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  2. Frank Kimbrough, Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk (Sunnyside)
  3. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams, Vanished Gardens (Blue Note)
  4. Mark Masters Ensemble, Our Métier (Capri)
  5. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret, The Other Side of Air (Firehouse 12)
  6. Wolfgang Muthspiel, Where the River Goes (ECM)
  7. Matthew Shipp Quartet, Sonic Fiction (ESP-Disk)
  8. Jacob Sacks, Fishes (Clean Feed)
  9. Mark Turner & Ethan Iverson, Temporary Kings (ECM)
  10. The Oakland Elementary School Arkestra, The Saga of Padani (Modern Harmonic)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. The Savory Collection 1935-1940 (Mosaic)
  2. Charles Mingus, Jazz in Detroit/Strata Concert Gallery/46 Selden (BBE)
  3. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)

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Jeff Tamarkin (JazzTimes, Relix, Mojo)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  2. Sons of Kemet, Your Queen Is a Reptile (Impulse!)
  3. Brad Mehldau, Seymour Reads the Constitution! (Nonesuch)
  4. Willie Nelson, My Way (Legacy)
  5. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints, Scandal (Greenleaf Music)
  6. Lionel Loueke, The Journey (Aparte)
  7. Camille Thurman, Waiting for the Sunrise (Chesky)
  8. Bill Frisell, Music IS (Okeh)
  9. JD Allen, Love Stone (Savant)
  10. Julian Lage, Modern Lore (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. Wes Montgomery, In Paris: The Definitive ORTF Recording (Resonance)
  3. Miles Davis & John Coltrane, The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Neil Tesser (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  2. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (Pi)
  3. Kurt Elling, The Questions (Okeh)
  4. Michael Musillami Trio + 2, Life Anthem (Playscape)
  5. Stefon Harris & Blackout, Sonic Creed (Motéma)
  6. Thumbscrew, Ours/Theirs (Cuneiform)
  7. Made to Break, Trébuchet (Trost -17)
  8. Jon Irabagon Quartet, Dr. Quixotic's Traveling Exotics (Irabbagast)
  9. Ambrose Akinmusire, Origami Harvest (Blue Note)
  10. Rudy Royston, Flatbed Buggy (Greenleaf Music)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. The Art Ensemble of Chicago and Associated Ensembles (ECM)
  3. Gary Burton, Take Another Look: A Career Retrospective (Mack Avenue)

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Note: Thumbscrew vote only specified Theirs.

Michael Ullman (Fanfare, Arts Fuse)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charlie Haden & Brad Mehldau, Long Ago and Far Away (Impulse!)
  2. Roscoe Mitchell & Montreal-Toronto Art Orchestra, Ride the Wind (Nessa)
  3. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret, The Other Side of Air (Firehouse 12)
  4. Andrew Cyrille, Lebroba (ECM)
  5. Mary Halvorson & Bill Frisell, The Maid With the Flaxen Hair (Tzadik)
  6. Daniel Carter-Patrick Holmes-Matthew Putman-Hilliard Greene-Federico Ughi, Telepathic Alliances (577 -17)
  7. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (Pi)
  8. Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg, Dirt . . . and More Dirt (Pi)
  9. Joshua Redman, Still Dreaming (Nonesuch)
  10. Nicole Mitchell, Maroon Cloud (FPE)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Eric Dolphy, Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance)
  2. Miles Davis & John Coltrane, The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. John Coltrane, 1963: New Directions (Impulse!)

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Note: Charlie Haden & Brad Mehldau, Long Ago and Far Away (Impulse!) should be grouped with Reissues/Historical.

Ludwig vanTrikt (Cadence, NPR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fusk, The Jig Is Up (WhyPlayJazz)
  2. Theo Hill, Interstellar Adventures (Posi-Tone)
  3. Jeremy Pelt, Noir En Rouge: Live in Paris (HighNote)
  4. Alchemy Sound Project, Adventures in Time and Space (ARC)
  5. Jon Irabagon Quartet, Dr. Quixotic's Traveling Exotics (Irabbagast)
  6. Noah Preminger, Genuinity (Criss Cross)
  7. Thumbscrew, Ours/Theirs (Cuneiform)
  8. Dana Murray, Negro Manifesto (Ropeadope)
  9. Rosa Brunello Y Los Fermentos, Volverse Live in Trieste (CAM Jazz)
  10. Marshall Gilkes & WDR Big Band, Always Forward (Alternate Side)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Carter & Bobby Bradford Quartet, Flight for Four (Flying Dutchman)
  2. Eric Dolphy, Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance)
  3. Ralph Thomas, Eastern Standard Time (BBE)

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George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  2. Henry Threadgill, Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus (Pi)
  3. Chris Potter, The Dreamer Is the Dream (ECM -17)
  4. Ambrose Akinmusire, Origami Harvest (Blue Note)
  5. Sons of Kemet, Your Queen Is a Reptile (Impulse!)
  6. Karrin Allyson, Some of That Sunshine (Kasrecords)
  7. Joshua Redman, Still Dreaming (Nonesuch)
  8. Myra Melford's Snowy Egret, The Other Side of Air (Firehouse 12)
  9. Vinny Golia-Steph Richards-Bert Turetzky, Trio Music (pfMENTUM)
  10. Ben Wendel, The Seasons (Motéma)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. Miles Davis & John Coltrane, The Final Tour: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6 (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Charlie Haden & Brad Mehldau, Long Ago and Far Away (Impulse!)

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Seth Colter Walls (New York Times, Pitchfork, Bandcamp)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ingrid Laubrock, Contemporary Chaos Practices (Intakt)
  2. Esperanza Spalding, Exposure (Concord -17)
  3. Harriet Tubman, The Terror End of Beauty (Sunnyside)
  4. Mary Halvorson, Code Girl (Firehouse 12)
  5. Chris Dave, Chris Dave and the Drumhedz (Blue Note)
  6. Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, D'Agala (Intakt)
  7. Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg, Dirt . . . and More Dirt (Pi)
  8. Miles Okazaki, Work: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk, Vols. 1-6 (self-released)
  9. Kyoko Kitamura's Tidepool Fauna, Protean Labyrinth (self-released)
  10. Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Awase (ECM)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Anthony Braxton, Sextet (Parker) 1993 (New Braxton House)
  2. Prince, Piano and a Microphone 1983 (NPG/Warner Bros)
  3. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)

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Ken Waxman (Jazz Word)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Swell, Music for Six Musicians: Hommage À Olivier Messiaen (Silkheart -17)
  2. Dave Holland, Uncharted Territories (Dare2)
  3. Roots Magic, Last Kind Words (Clean Feed -17)
  4. François Houle-Alexander Hawkins-Harris Eisenstadt, You Have Options (Songlines)
  5. Jason Stein's Locksmith Isidore, After Caroline (Northern Spy)
  6. Alexander Hawkins, Unit[e] (self-released -17)
  7. Jason Kao Hwang, Sing House (Euonymous -17)
  8. François Carrier-Michel Lambert-Rafal Mazur, Beyond Dimensions (FMR)
  9. Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi, Proton Pump (Family Vineyard)
  10. Devin Gray, Dirigo Rataplan II (Rataplan)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Karyobin Are the Imaginary Birds Said to Live in Paradise (Emanem -17)
  2. Milford Graves, Bäbi (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  3. Alan Braufman, Valley of Search (Valley of Search)

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Bob Weinberg (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Roswell Rudd-Fay Victor-Lafayette Harris-Ken Filiano, Embrace (RareNoise -17)
  2. Michael Musillami & Rich Syracuse, Bird Calls (Playscape -17)
  3. Andrew Cyrille, Lebroba (ECM)
  4. Marta Sánchez Quintet, Danza Imposible (Fresh Sound New Talent -17)
  5. Tia Fuller, Diamond Cut (Mack Avenue)
  6. Daniel Carter-William Parker-Matthew Shipp, Seraphic Light (AUM Fidelity)
  7. Eva Novoa's Ditmas Quartet, Live at IBeam (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  8. Ingrid Jensen & Steve Treseler, Invisible Sounds: For Kenny Wheeler (Whirlwind)
  9. Michael Moss Accidental Orchestra, Helix (4th Stream)
  10. Matthew Shipp, Zero (ESP-Disk)

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. Woody Shaw, Live in Bremen 1983 (Elemental Music)

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Jason Weiss (Le Ventre et l'Oreille, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Cory Smythe, Circulate Susanna (Pyroclastic)
  2. Guillermo Gregorio-Rafal Mazur-Ramón López, Wandering the Sounds (Fundacja Sluchaj)
  3. Barre Phillips, End to End (ECM)
  4. Don Byron & Aruán Ortiz, Random Dances and (A)tonalities (Intakt)
  5. Sandcatchers, What We Found Along the Way (Chant)
  6. 10³²K, The Law of Vibration (self-released)
  7. Stefan Bellnäs, Podunk (Country & Eastern)
  8. Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFunk, Wet Robots (ESP-Disk)
  9. Spirit of Chicago Orchestra/Formation Jazz de la Musique de l'Air, Tribute to James Reese Europe (Frémeaux & Associés)
  10. David Virelles, Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Grove), Vol. I & II (Pi)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Eric Dolphy, Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance)
  2. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  3. Don Cherry, Home Boy (Sister Out) (Wewantsounds)

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Ken Weiss (Cadence, Jazz Inside)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (Pi)
  2. Satoko Fujii, Solo (Libra)
  3. Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, D'Agala (Intakt)
  4. Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg, Dirt . . . and More Dirt (Pi)
  5. Thumbscrew, Ours/Theirs (Cuneiform)
  6. Jonathan Finlayson, 3 Times Round (Pi)
  7. Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra, Down a Rabbit Hole (Summit)
  8. Stefan Aeby Trio, The London Concert (Intakt)
  9. Jemeel Moondoc Quartet, The Astral Revelations (RogueArt)
  10. Kaze, Atody Man (Libra)

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Michael J. West (JazzTimes, DownBeat, Washington Post)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Alicia Hall Moran, Here Today (Yes -17)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Origami Harvest (Blue Note)
  3. Steve Tibbetts, Life Of (ECM)
  4. Jacques Schwarz-Bart-Stéphane Galland-Malcolm Braff-Laurent David, Shijin (Alter-Nativ)
  5. Koplant No, Elker (Mize Music)
  6. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  7. James Francies, Flight (Blue Note)
  8. Roxy Coss, The Future Is Female (Posi-Tone)
  9. Joel Harrison, Angel Band: Free Country, Vol. 3 (HighNote)
  10. Kenny Barron Quintet, Concentric Circles (Blue Note)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. Charles Mingus, Jazz in Detroit/Strata Concert Gallery/46 Selden (BBE)
  3. Fred Hersch Trio, Heartsongs (Sunnyside)

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Richard Williams (The Blue Moment)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, Origami Harvest (Blue Note)
  2. Moses Boyd Exodus, Displaced Diaspora (Exodus)
  3. Arve Henriksen, The Height of the Reeds (Rune Grammofon)
  4. Tyshawn Sorey, Pillars (Firehouse 12)
  5. Marc Ribot, Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 (Epitaph)
  6. Louis Moholo-Moholo's Five Blokes, Uplift the People (Ogun)
  7. The Necks, Body (Northern Spy)
  8. The Nels Cline 4, Currents Constellations (Blue Note)
  9. Barre Phillips, End to End (ECM)
  10. Mike Westbrook, Starcross Bridge (Hatology)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Charles Mingus, Jazz in Detroit/Strata Concert Gallery/46 Selden (BBE)
  2. André Hodeir, "Essais": Complete Paris & New York Sessions (Fresh Sound -17)
  3. Don Cherry Trio, Studio 105, Paris 1967 (Hi Hat)

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Note: In Memory of Lou Gare recorded 2010-14, should count as new release. Gare died in 2017.

Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax "The Outer View")

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams, Vanished Gardens (Blue Note)
  2. Graz Composers Orchestra Meets Claudia Döffinger, Monochrome (QFTF)
  3. Edward Simon, Sorrows & Triumphs (Sunnyside)
  4. Kate Reid, The Heart Already Knows (self-released)
  5. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  6. Darrell Katz and the JCA Orchestra, Rats Live on No Evil Star (JCA)
  7. Owen Broder, Heritage: The American Roots Project (ArtistShare)
  8. Kevin Bales & Keri Johnsrud, Beyond the Neighborhood: The Music of Fred Rogers (GabNat)
  9. Kate McGarry, The Subject Tonight Is Love (Binxtown)
  10. Billie Davies Trio, Perspectives II (self-released)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Amarcord Nino Rota (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  2. Mike Gibbs Band, Symphony Hall, Birmingham 1991 (Dusk Fire)
  3. Fred Hersch Trio, '97 @ The Village Vanguard (Palmetto)

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Ron Wynn (Nashville Scene, Tennessee Jazz & Blues, Tennessee Tribune, East Nashvillian, WFSK FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Murray Feat. Saul Williams, Blues for Memo (Motéma)
  2. Henry Threadgill 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg, Dirt . . . and More Dirt (Pi)
  3. Cécile McLorin Salvant, The Window (Mack Avenue)
  4. Diane Marino, Soul Serenade: The Gloria Lynne Project (M&M)
  5. Wayne Shorter Quartet, Emanon (Blue Note)
  6. Andrew Cyrille, Lebroba (ECM)
  7. Joshua Redman, Still Dreaming (Nonesuch)
  8. Walking Distance, Freebird by Walking Distance feat. Jason Moran (Sunnyside)
  9. Joe Armon-Jones, Starting Today (Brownswood)
  10. Carlos Henriquez, Dizzy Con Clave (RodBros Music)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  2. Grant Green, Funk in France: From Paris to Antibes (1969-1970) (Resonance)
  3. Sun Ra, Astro Black (Modern Harmonic)

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Scott Yanow (DownBeat, Jazziz, New York City Jazz Record, Los Angeles Jazz Scene, Syncopated Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Anat Cohen Tentet, Happy Song (Anzic -17)
  2. Don Menza Quartet, Sonny Daze (Alessa)
  3. Dave Liebman & John Stowell, Petite Fleur: The Music of Sidney Bechet (Origin)
  4. Dave Tull, Texting and Driving (Toy Car)
  5. On the Levee Jazz Band, Swinging New Orleans Jazz: For Dancing - Or Just Listening! (Big Al)
  6. Monika Herzig, Sheroes (Whaling City Sound)
  7. Amy Cervini, No One Ever Tells You (Anzic)
  8. Dr. Michael White, Tricentennial Rag (Basin Street)
  9. Benito Gonzalez-Gerry Gibbs-Essiet Okon Essiet, Passion Reverence Transcendence (Whaling City Sound)
  10. Claudia Villela, Encantada Live (self-released)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. The Savory Collection 1935-1940 (Mosaic)
  2. John Coltrane, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album (Impulse!)
  3. Teddy Wilson, Classic Brunswick & Columbia Teddy Wilson Sessions 1934-42 (Mosaic)

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