14th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2019

Ballot 2019

Francis Davis (NPR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Abdullah Ibrahim, The Balance (Gearbox)
  2. Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan, Epistrophy (ECM)
  3. Tomeka Reid Quartet, Old New (Cuneiform)
  4. Kris Davis, Diatom Ribbons (Pyroclastic)
  5. Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra, Littlefield Concert Hall Mills College March 19-20, 2018 (Wide Hive)
  6. Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette, The Ambiguity Manifesto (Firehouse 12)
  7. George Coleman, The Quartet (Smoke Sessions)
  8. Ted Nash-Steve Cardenas-Ben Allison, Somewhere Else: West Side Story Songs (Plastic Sax)
  9. Jeremy Udden, Three in Paris (Sunnyside)
  10. Eric Alexander, Leap of Faith (Giant Step Arts)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. John Coltrane, Blue World (1964, Impulse!)
  2. Bill Dixon & Cecil Taylor, Duets 1992 (Triple Point)
  3. Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee, The Newest Sound You Never Heard (1966-67, A-Side -2CD)

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