2018 Totals: Vocals

1. Cécile McLorin Salvant, The Window (Mack Avenue) 38
2. William Parker, Voices Fall From the Sky (AUM Fidelity) 7
3. Sara Serpa, Close Up (Clean Feed) 7
4. Kurt Elling, The Questions (Okeh) 6
5. Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFunk, Wet Robots (ESP-Disk) 6
6. Cyrille Aimée, Live (Mack Avenue) 5
7. Kate McGarry, The Subject Tonight Is Love (Binxtown) 3
8. Nicole Mitchell, Maroon Cloud (FPE) 3
9. Luciana Souza, The Book of Longing (Sunnyside) 3
10. Mary Halvorson, Code Girl (Firehouse 12) 2
Kat Edmonson, Old Fashioned Gal (Spinnerette) 2
11. Amy Cervini, No One Ever Tells You (Anzic) 2
12. Esperanza Spalding, 12 Little Spells (Concord) 2
13. Tess Souter, Picture in Black and White (NOA) 2
14. Marc Ribot, Songs of Resistance 1942-2018 (Epitaph) 2
15. Kirk Knuffke & Steven Herring, Witness (SteepleChase) 2
16. Tony Bennett & Diana Krall, Love Is Here to Stay (Verve/Columbia) 2
18. Benjamin Boone & Philip Levine, The Poetry of Jazz (Origin) 1
19. Bobby Previte, Rhapsody (RareNoise) 1
20. Elina Duni, Partir (ECM) 1
Bob Mintzer Big Band & New York Voices, Meeting of Minds (MCG Jazz) 1
21. José James, Lean on Me (Blue Note) 1
22. Allegra Levy, Looking at the Moon (SteepleChase) 1
23. Dave Tull, Texting and Driving (Toy Car) 1
24. Walter Wolfman Washington, My Future Is My Past (Anti-) 1
25. François Moutin & Kavita Shah Duo, Interplay (Dot Time) 1
26. William Parker, Flower in a Stained-Glass Window & The Blinking of the Ear (Centering/AUM Fidelity) 1
27. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels + Lucinda Williams, Vanished Gardens (Blue Note) 1
28. Veryan Weston, The Make Project (Barnyard) 1
29. Willie Nelson, My Way (Legacy) 1
Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco, You're Driving Me Crazy (Legacy) 1
30. Kandace Springs, Indigo (Blue Note) 1
31. Stacey Kent, I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions (Okeh -17) 1
32. Kate Reid, The Heart Already Knows (self-released) 1
33. Ran Blake & Christine Correa, Streaming (Red Piano) 1
34. Roseanna Vitro, Tell Me the Truth (Skyline) 1
35. Allan Harris, The Genius of Eddie Jefferson (Resilience Music) 1
36. Maria Muldaur, Don't You Feel My Leg: The Naughty Bawdy Blues of Blue Lu Barker (The Last Music Company) 1
37. Kyoko Kitamura's Tidepool Fauna, Protean Labyrinth (self-released) 1
38. Leny Andrade, Bossa Nossa: Leny Andrade Canta Fred Falcão (Biscoito Fino) 1
Thandi Ntuli, Exiled (Inpartmaint) 1
39. Marije Van Dijk, The Stereography Project Feat Jeff Taylor and Katell Keinig (Hert) 1
40. Lana Trio, Lana Trio With Sofia Jernberg (Clean Feed) 1
41. Norma Winstone, Descansado: Songs for Films (ECM) 1
42. Jon Batiste, Hollywood Africans (Verve) 1
43. Alicia Hall Moran, Here Today (Yes -17) 1
44. Jazzmeia Horn, A Social Call (Prestige -17) 1
45. Esperanza Spalding, Exposure (Concord -17) 1

Critics were asked to name one album apiece, with no point system.

Albums receiving votes this year that had received votes in last year's poll:

• Stacy Kent, I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions (OKeh) 1 + 1
• Jazzmeia Horn, A Social Call (Prestige) 8 + 1

The rule is that we add the old votes into this year's totals only if the album received more votes this year than last.