14th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2019

Ballot 2019

Ysi Ortega (Stalker 21)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fire! Orchestra, Arrival (Rune Grammofon)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith, Rosa Parks: Pure Love: An Oratorio of Seven Songs (TUM)
  3. Anna Webber, Clockwise (Pi)
  4. Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette, The Ambiguity Manifesto (Firehouse 12)
  5. Matt Mitchell, Phalanx Ambassadors (Pi)
  6. Tyshawn Sorey & Marilyn Crispell, The Adornment of Time (Pi)
  7. Enrico Fazio Critical Mass, Wabi Sabi (Leo)
  8. Vijay Iyer & Craig Taborn, The Transitory Poems (ECM)
  9. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (New Haven) 2014 (Firehouse 12 -4CD)
  10. David Torn-Tim Berne-Ches Smith, Sun of Goldfinger (ECM)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Jimmy Giuffre 3, Graz Live 1961 (Ezz-thetics)
  2. Sam Rivers Trio, Emanation (1971, NoBusiness)

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN

Note: Extra votes in Vocal: Peter Eldridge, Somewhere; Debut: Nick Dunston, Atlantic Extraction; Joshua Espinoza Trio, Journey Into Night; Latin: Miguel Zenón, Sonero: The Music of Ismael Rivera.