Jazz Critics Poll: 2010

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Ballots 2010 [4]: Kanzler - Milkowski

NEW RELEASES

1. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
2. Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema)
3. Bruce Barth & Steve Wilson: Home (WASJS)
4. Ryan Keberle: Heavy Dreaming (Alternate Side)
5. Ted Nash & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Portrait in Seven Shades (JLCO)
6. Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait (Blue Note)
7. Geri Allen and Timeline: Live (Motema)
8. Michael Dease: Grace (Jazz Legacy)
9. Warren Vache & John Allred: Top Shelf (Arbors)
10. Tim Warfield: A Sentimental Journey (Criss Cross)

REISSUES

1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
2. Abbey Lincoln: Through the Years (Hip-O Select)
3. Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings (Mosaic)

VOCAL

• Jon Burr & Lynn Stein: Jon & Lynn (jbQ)

DEBUT

• Matt Panayides: Tapestries of Song (Pacific Coast Jazz)

LATIN

• Chucho Valdes: Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters)

NEW RELEASES

1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
2. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
3. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
4. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
5. Ted Nash & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Portrait in Seven Shades (JLCO)
6. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
7. Dave Douglas: Spark of Being: Burst (Greenleaf)
8. Anat Fort: And If (ECM)
9. The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1)
10. Masada String Trio: Haborym: The Book of Angels, Vol. 16 (Tzadik)

REISSUES

1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
2. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark)
2. Warne Marsh: New York City Live (Riverworks)
3. Jeb Bishop: 2009 (Better Animal)
4. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
5. Keefe Jackson: Seeing You See (Clean Feed)
6. Aram Shelton: Two Cities (Delmark)
7. The Engines: Wire and Brass (Okka Disk)
8. James Falzone: Lamentations (Allos)
9. Rich Corpolongo: Get Happy (Delmark)
10. Walt Weiskopf: See the Pyramid (Criss Cross)

REISSUES

1. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform)
2. Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love: Milwaukee Volume (Smalltown Superjazz)
3. Steve Turre: Delicious and Delightful (HighNote)
4. Chet Baker: The Sesjun Radio Shows (Out of the Blue/T2)
5. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
6. Matt Wilson: Christmas Tree-O (Palmetto)
7. Cochemea Gastelum: The Electric Sound of Johnny Arrow (Mowo/Hyena)
8. Ralph Alessi: Cognitive Dissonance (CAM Jazz)
9. Dave Liebman: Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Jazzwerkstatt)
10. Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travellers (Accurate)

REISSUES

1. Catalyst: The Complete Recordings, Vol.1 (Porter)
2. Catalyst: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 2 (Porter)
3. Gabor Szabo: Jazz Raga (Light in the Attic)

VOCAL

• Denise Donatelli: When Lights Are Low (Savant)

DEBUT

• Cochemea Gastelum: The Electric Sound of Johnny Arrow (Mowo/Hyena)

LATIN

• Enrico Pieranunzi: Live at Birdland (CAM Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

1. Clayton Brothers: The New Song and Dance (ArtistShare)
2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
3. Billy Childs: Autumn: In Moving Pictures (ArtistShare)
4. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
5. Tom Harrell: Roman Nights (High Note)
6. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
7. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
8. Stefano Bollani: Stone in the Water (ECM)
9. Trombone Shorty: Backatown (Verve Forecast)
10. Terry Clarke: It's About Time (Blue Music Group)

REISSUES

• No choice.

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Terry Clarke: It's About Time (Blue Music Group)

LATIN

• Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)

NEW RELEASES

1. Jay Clayton: In and Out of Love (Sunnyside)
2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
3. Eri Yamamoto: In Each Day, Something Good (AUM Fidelity)
4. Marc Cary: Focus Trio Live 2009 (Motema)
5. Erica Lindsay & Sumi Tonooka: Initiation (ARC)
6. Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock (Half Note)
7. Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM)
8. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
9. Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released)

REISSUES

1. Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Let's Call This . . . Esteem (SLAM-Silta)

VOCAL

• Jay Clayton: In and Out of Love (Sunnyside)

DEBUT

• Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released)

LATIN

• Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock (Half Note)

NEW RELEASES

1. New York Art Quartet: Old Stuff (Cuneiform)
2. Fred Anderson: Black Horn Long Gone (Southport)
3. : Summer Works 2009 (Emanem)
4. Steve Lacy: November (Intakt)
5. G9 Gipfel: Berlin (Jazzwerkstatt)
6. Daniele D'Agaro-Alexander von Schlippenbach-Han Bennink: Fingerprints (Artesuono)
7. Keefe Jackson: Seeing You See (Clean Feed)
8. Scoolptures: Materiale Umano (Leo)
9. Evan Parker: Set (Eminem)
10. Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released)

REISSUES

1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
3. Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP-Disk)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released)

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
2. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
3. Jazz Passengers: Reunited (Justin Time)
4. Mostly Other People Do the Killing Forty: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
5. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
6. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
7. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)
8. Matthew Shipp: 4D (Thirsty Ear)
9. Rez Abbasi: Natural Selection (Sunnyside)
10. Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

1. Sonny Rollins: The Definitive Sonny Rollins on Prestige, Riverside & Contemporary (Concord)
2. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
3. Joe Pass: Virtuoso (Pablo)

VOCAL

• Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)

DEBUT

• Hugo Carvalhais: Nebulosa (Clean Feed)

LATIN

• Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)

NEW RELEASES

1. Walter Smith III: III (Criss Cross)
2. John Escreet: Don't Fight the Inevitable (Mythology)
3. Kris Davis-Ingrid Laubrock-Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed)
4. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
5. Lage Lund: Unlikely Stories (Criss Cross)
6. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
7. Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait (Blue Note)
8. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
9. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)
10. Florian Ross: Mechanism (Pirouet)

REISSUES

• No choice.

VOCAL

• Theo Bleckmann: I Dwell in Possibility (Winter & Winter)

DEBUT

• Bizingas: Bizingas (NCM East)

LATIN

• Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)

NEW RELEASES

1. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
2. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
3. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
4. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
5. Steve Colson: The Untarnished Dream (Silver Sphinx)
6. Dan Tepfer: Five Pedals Deep (Sunnyside)
7. : Spiritual Lover (Clean Feed)
8. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
9. John Ellis: Puppet Mischief (ObliqSound)
10. Bill Frisell: Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz)

REISSUES

1. Fela Kuti: The Best of the Black President (Kalakuta/Knitting Factory)
2. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note (CAM Jazz)
3. Art Pepper: Meets the Rhythm Section (Concord)

VOCAL

• Irene Kral: Second Chance (Jazzed Media)

DEBUT

• Mike Fahie: Anima (BJU)
• Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)

LATIN

NEW RELEASES

1. Muhal Richard Abrams & Roscoe Mitchell: Spectrum (Mutable)
2. Fred Anderson: Black Horn Long Gone (Southport)
3. Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark)
4. Evan Parker: Whitstable Solo (Psi)
5. Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (Kabell)
6. Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau (Intakt)
7. Satoko Fujii: Zakopane (Libra)
8. Geof Bradfield: African Flowers (Origin)
9. Mike Reed: Empathetic Parts (482 Music)
10. Nicole Mitchell: Emerald Hills (RogueArt)

REISSUES

1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.

NEW RELEASES

1. Scott Robinson-Marshall Allen-Pat O'Leary-Kevin Norton: Live at Space Farms (ScienSonic)
2. Ross Bolleter: Night Kitchen (2002-2009) (Emanem)
3. Lisa Mezzacappa: What Is Known (Clean Feed)
4. Shining: Black Jazz (The End)
5. Fight the Big Bull: All Is Gladness in the Kingdom (Clean Feed)
6. Marc Edwards & Weasel Walter: Blood of the Earth (UgExplode)
7. Mingus Big Band: Live at Jazz Standard (Jazz Workshop/Jazz Standard)
8. Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM)
9. Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
10. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)

REISSUES

1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
2. Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Let's Call This . . . Esteem (SLAM-Silta)

VOCAL

• Erik Truffaz: Rendez-Vous (Blue Note)

DEBUT

• Lisa Mezzacappa: What Is Known (Clean Feed)

LATIN

• Calibro 35: Ritornano Quelli Di . . . Calibro 35 (Nublu)

NEW RELEASES

1. Dee Dee Bridgewater: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee (Emarcy)
2. Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)
3. Catherine Russell: Inside This Heart of Mine (World Village)
4. Irene Kral: Second Chance (Jazzed Media)
5. Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony (Blue Note)
6. Gil Scott-Heron: I'm New Here (XL)
7. Freddy Cole: Sings Mr. B (HighNote)
8. Lorraine Feather: Ages (Jazzed Media)
9. Denise Donatelli: When Lights Are Low (Savant)
10. Stacey Kent: Raconte-moi . . . (Blue Note)

REISSUES

1. Abbey Lincoln: Golden Lady (Inner City)
2. Fred "Sugar" Hall: Look Who's Here (Challenge)
3. Chet Baker: It Could Happen to You (Concord)

VOCAL

• Dee Dee Bridgewater: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee (Emarcy)

DEBUT

• Gregory Porter: Water (Motema)

LATIN

• : (Dreyfus)

NEW RELEASES

1. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
2. Denny Zeitlin: Precipice (Sunnyside)
3. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
4. Geri Allen and Timeline: Live (Motema)
5. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
6. Anat Fort: And If (ECM)
7. Torben Waldorf: American Rock Beauty (ArtistShare)
8. Bill Frisell: Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz)
9. Liam Sillery: Phenomenology (OA2)
10. Ellen Rowe: Wishing Well (PKO)

REISSUES

1. Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings (Concord)
2. Dave Douglas: Constellations (Hatology)
3. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• World Service Project: Relentless (self-released)

LATIN

• Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Viva la Tradicion (Concord)

NEW RELEASES

1. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
2. Dana Hall: Into the Light (Origin)
3. Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
4. Eli Degibri: Israeli Song (Anzic)
5. Rez Abbasi: Natural Selection (Sunnyside)
6. Ted Nash & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Portrait in Seven Shades (JLCO)
7. Pat Metheny: Orchestrion (Nonesuch)
8. Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch)
9. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
10. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)

REISSUES

1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)

VOCAL

• Catherine Russell: Inside This Heart of Mine (World Village)

DEBUT

• Dana Hall: Into the Light (Origin)

LATIN

• Chucho Valdes: Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters)

NEW RELEASES

1. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
2. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)
3. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
4. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
5. Bill Carrothers: Joy Spring (Pirouet)
6. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
7. Tarbaby: The End of Fear (Posi-Tone)
8. Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto)
9. Steve Cardenas: West of Middle (Sunnyside)
10. Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite (Pi)

REISSUES

1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
2. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
3. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)

VOCAL

• Rebecca Martin: When I Was Long Ago (Sunnyside)

DEBUT

• Randy Ingram: The Road Ahead (BJU)

LATIN

• Chucho Valdes: Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters)

NEW RELEASES

1. Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released)
2. Bobby McFerrin: VOCAbuLaries (Emarcy)
3. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
4. Dominic Duval & Cecil Taylor: The Last Dance (Cadence)
5. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
6. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
7. Sam Newsome: Blue Soliloquy (Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone) (self-released)
8. Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark)
9. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman: Dual Identity (Clean Feed)
10. Nicole Mitchell: Emerald Hills (RogueArt)

REISSUES

1. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
2. Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP-Disk)
3. Wadada Leo Smith: Spirit Catcher (Nessa)

VOCAL

• Bobby McFerrin: VOCAbuLaries (Emarcy)

DEBUT

• Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released)

LATIN

• Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)

NEW RELEASES

1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
2. Evan Parker-Barry Guy-Paul Lytton-Peter Evans: Scenes in the House of Music (Clean Feed)
3. John McNeil & Bill McHenry: Chill Morn He Climb Jenny (Sunnyside)
4. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
5. Atomic: Theater Tilters Vol. 1 (Jazzland)
6. Atomic: Theater Tilters Vol. 2 (Jazzland)
7. Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
8. Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark)
9. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
10. Jeb Bishop: 2009 (Better Animal)

REISSUES

1. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
2. Dinah Washington: The Fabulous Miss D! The Keynote, Decca and Mercury Singles 1943-1953 (Hip-O Select)
3. Archie Shepp: New York Contemporary Five (Delmark)

VOCAL

• Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony (Blue Note)

DEBUT

• Dawn of Midi: First (Accretions)

LATIN

• Chucho Valdes: Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters)

NEW RELEASES

1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
2. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
3. Kenny Dorham: The Flamboyan, Queens, NY, 1963 (Uptown)
4. Lee Konitz: Live at the Village Vanguard (Enja)
5. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
6. Clayton Brothers: The New Song and Dance (ArtistShare)
7. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
8. Bob Wilber: Is Here (Arbors)
9. Barry Harris: Live in Rennes (Plus Loin)
10. Marian Petrescu: Thrivin': Live at Jazz Standard (Resonance)

REISSUES

1. Teddy Wilson: Solo, Trio, Quartet, Sextet & Big Band From 1939-1983 (Storyville)
2. Duke Ellington: The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia, and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
3. Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Let's Call This . . . Esteem (SLAM-Silta)

VOCAL

• Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)

DEBUT

• Mason Brothers: Two Sides One Story (Archival)

LATIN

• Arturo O'Farrill: Risa Negre (Zoho)

NEW RELEASES

1. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
2. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
3. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
4. Howard Wiley: 12 Gates to the City (HNIC Music)
5. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
6. Billy Childs: Autumn: In Moving Pictures (ArtistShare)
7. Bill Frisell: Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz)
8. Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM)
9. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
10. Scott Colley: Empire (CAM Jazz)

REISSUES

1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
2. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
3. Bill Evans: Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings June 1980 (Nonesuch)

VOCAL

• No choice.

DEBUT

• No choice.

LATIN

• No choice.