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Ballots 2010 [6]: Slim - Yanow

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Slim (Cadence, WRCU-FM [Colgate University])

NEW RELEASES

  1. : 3 Nights in Oslo (Smalltown Superjazz)
  2. Jeff Chan: Horns of Plenty (Asian Improv)
  3. Michael Jefry Stevens-Tim Siegel-Jeff Ferguson: Six (Konnex)
  4. Milton Suggs: Things to Come (Skiptone)
  5. Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: In Search of a Standard (Leo)
  6. Richard Thompson: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Arabesque)
  7. : For All We Know (Impulse)
  8. Tierney Sutton: Desire (Telarc)
  9. Janet Planet: Sings the Bob Dylan Songbook Volume 1 (Stellar)
  10. : Blue Chicago Blues (Not Two)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time: The Complete Recordings (Sunnyside)
  2. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
  3. Willie "The Lion" Smith: Jazz Legacy (Inner City)

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Chip Stern (Playbill, Positive Feedback)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mike Clark: Carnival of Soul (Owl Studios)
  2. Oregon: In Stride (CAM Jazz)
  3. Paquito D'Rivera: Tango Jazz: Live at Lincoln Center (Sunnyside)
  4. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Vitoria Suite (Emarcy)
  5. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  6. Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro (ECM)
  7. Scott DuBois: Black Hawk Dance (Sunnyside)
  8. Dave Liebman: As Always (MAMA)
  9. Richie Beirach & Dave Liebman: Quest for Freedom (Sunnyside)
  10. Betty Davis: Is It Love or Desire (Light in the Attic)

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Zan Stewart (freelance)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  2. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
  3. Rufus Reid: Out Front (Motema)
  4. Kenny Dorham: The Flamboyan, Queens, NY, 1963 (Uptown)
  5. Joe Magnarelli: My Old Flame (GIVE@GO)
  6. Claudio Roditi: Simpatico (Resonance)
  7. Antonio Ciacca: Lagos Blues (Motema)
  8. Mingus Big Band: Live at Jazz Standard (Jazz Workshop/Jazz Standard)
  9. One for All: One for All (Jazz Legacy)
  10. Jacky Terrasson: Push (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Sony Legacy)
  2. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  3. Various Artists: CTI Records: The Cool Revolution (Masterworks Jazz)

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Jeff Stockton (All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Parker: I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  3. Daniel Humair: Pas de Dense (Zig Zag)
  4. William Parker: Uncle Joe's Spirit House (Centering)
  5. David Boykin: Ultra Sheen (Sonic Healing Ministries)
  6. Adam Lane: Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed)
  7. Angles: Epileptical West (Clean Feed)
  8. Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (Kabell)
  10. Nicole Mitchell: Emerald Hills (RogueArt)

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W. Royal Stokes (JJA Newsletter, wroyalstokes.com)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Mark Stryker (Detroit Free Press)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tom Harrell: Roman Nights (High Note)
  2. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  3. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  4. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  5. Kenny Dorham: The Flamboyan, Queens, NY, 1963 (Uptown)
  6. Hal Galper: E Pluribus Unum (Origin)
  7. Bruce Barth & Steve Wilson: Home (WASJS)
  8. Jon Irabagon: Foxy (Hot Cup)
  9. Cookers: Warriors (Jazz Legacy)
  10. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  2. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings (Concord)

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John F. Szwed (The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  2. Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed)
  3. : Enescu Re-Imagined (Sunnyside)
  4. Ches Smith & These Arches: Finally Out of My Hands (Skirl)
  5. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  6. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  7. David Weiss: Snuck In (Sunnyside)
  8. The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform)
  9. Mike Mainieri: Crescent (NYC)
  10. Scott Colley: Empire (CAM Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  2. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note (CAM Jazz)

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Jeff Tamarkin (JazzTimes, Mojo)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mostly Other People Do the Killing Forty: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
  2. Lionel Loueke: Mwaliko (Blue Note)
  3. Various Artists: Treme: Music From the HBO Original Series, Season 1 (Geffen)
  4. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  5. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  6. Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
  7. Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM)
  8. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside)
  9. Matthew Shipp: 4D (Thirsty Ear)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Sony Legacy)
  2. Eberhard Weber: Colours (ECM)
  3. Various Artists: CTI Records: The Cool Revolution (Masterworks Jazz)

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Neil Tesser (Examiner.com, Chicago News Cooperative)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mostly Other People Do the Killing Forty: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Ray Anderson & Marty Ehrlich: Hear You Say: Live in Willisau (Intuition)
  4. Brad Goode: Tight Like This (Delmark)
  5. Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12)
  6. Fight the Big Bull: All Is Gladness in the Kingdom (Clean Feed)
  7. Geof Bradfield: African Flowers (Origin)
  8. Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue)
  9. Mike Reed: Stories and Negotiations (482 Music)
  10. Organissimo: Alive & Kickin' (Big O)

REISSUES

  1. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: The Complete Revelation Sessions (Mosaic Select)
  2. : The Olufsen Years 1988-1994 (SteepleChase)
  3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)

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Ludwig Van Trikt (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brad Goode: Tight Like This (Delmark)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  3. Mark Lomax: The State of Black America (Inarhyme)
  4. Scott Amendola: Lift (Sazi)
  5. Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travellers (Accurate)
  6. Karl E.H. Seigfried: Portrait of Jack Johnson (Imaginary Chicago)
  7. The Vandermark 5: The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone (Not Two)
  8. Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM)
  9. Omar Sosa & NDR Bigband: Ceremony ()
  10. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)

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George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune, Creators News Syndicate)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM)
  3. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  4. Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM)
  5. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi)
  6. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  7. Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)
  8. Holly Hofmann & Bill Cunliffe: Three's Company (Capri)
  9. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  10. Meg Okura: Naima (self-released)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Nat King Cole: Riffin': The Decca, JATP, Keynote and Mercury Recordings (Hip-O Select)
  3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint and Soul Note (CAM Jazz)

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Andrew Velez (All About Jazz--New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Irene Kral: Second Chance (Jazzed Media)
  2. Duke Ellington: The Great Concerts London & New York 1963-1964 (Nimbus)
  3. Eddie Henderson: For All We Know (Furthermore)
  4. Mary Stallings: Dream (High Note)

REISSUES

  1. Dave Brubeck: Legacy of a Legend (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Lester Young: Centennial Celebration (Original Jazz Classics)
  3. Dave Brubeck: Original Album Classics (Masterworks Jazz)

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Seth Colter Walls (Newsweek, The Awl)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. : The Sixth Jump (Songlines)
  4. Maurice Brown: The Cycle of Love (Brown)
  5. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  6. Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House (Intakt)
  7. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  8. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  9. Tomas Fujiwara: Actionspeak (482 Music)
  10. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman: Dual Identity (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

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Jason Weiss (Improjazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lacy: November (Intakt)
  2. : Jugendstil II (ESP-Disk)
  3. Jacques Coursil: Trails of Tears (Sunnyside)
  4. Ivo Perelman-Daniel Levin-Torbjorn Zetterberg: Soulstorm (Clean Feed)
  5. Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform)
  6. Jonas Knutsson: (Country & Eastern)
  7. Frank Carlberg: Tivoli Trio (Red Piano)
  8. Ran Blake & Christine Correa: Out of the Shadows (Red Piano)
  9. Sam Sadigursky: The Words Project III: Miniatures (New Amsterdam)
  10. Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone)

REISSUES

  1. Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra (ESP-Disk)
  2. Sun Ra: College Tour Vol. 1: The Complete Nothing Is (ESP-Disk)
  3. Marion Brown: Why Not? (ESP-Disk)

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Michael J. West (Washington City Paper, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord)
  2. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  3. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
  4. Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait (Blue Note)
  5. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  6. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman: Dual Identity (Clean Feed)
  8. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  9. Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema)
  10. : Enescu Re-Imagined (Sunnyside)

REISSUES

  1. Lloyd McNeill: Asha (Universal Sound)
  2. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)

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Kevin Whitehead (Fresh Air [NPR], eMusic)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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K. Leander Williams (TK)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  4. Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12)
  5. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  6. Artvark Saxophone Quartet: Truffles (Challenge)
  7. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)

REISSUES

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Josef Woodward (Downbeat, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. : Fabula Suite Lugano (ECM)
  2. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  3. Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait (Blue Note)
  4. The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1)
  5. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi)
  6. Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi)
  7. Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT)
  8. Nils Petter Molvaer: Hamada (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM)
  10. John Scofeld-Vince Mendoza-Metropole Orkest: 54 (Emarcy)

REISSUES

  1. Sonny Rollins: Way Out West (Original Jazz Classics)
  2. Joe Pass: Virtuoso (Pablo)
  3. Bill Evans: Brilliant (Timeless)

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Ron Wynn (Nashville Scene, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note)
  2. Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2)
  3. Marsalis Family: Music Redeemed (Marsalis Music)
  4. James Moody: 4B (IPO)
  5. Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock (Half Note)
  6. Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM)
  7. Catherine Russell: Inside This Heart of Mine (World Village)
  8. Tamir Hendelman: Destinations (Resonance)
  9. Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Wes Montgomery: Boss Guitar (Concord)
  3. Ray Charles: Genius + Soul = Jazz (Concord)

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Scott Yanow (The Great Jazz Singers, Jazz on Film)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Hiromi: Place to Be (Telarc)
  2. Mostly Other People Do the Killing Forty: Forty Fort (Hot Cup)
  3. Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1)
  4. Frank Macchia: Folk Songs for Jazzers (Cacophony)
  5. Wynton Marsalis & Richard Galliano: From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf (Wynton Marsalis Enterprises)
  6. John Pizzarelli: Rockin' in Rhythm (Telarc)
  7. Dave Liebman: As Always (MAMA)
  8. Chucho Valdes: Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters)
  9. Jessica Williams: Touch (Origin)
  10. Jacky Terrasson: Push (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. Various Artists: Cabaret Echoes: New Orleans Jazzers at Work, 1918-1927 (Archeophone)
  2. Ahmad Jamal: The Complete Argo Trio Sessions 1956-62 (Mosaic)
  3. Henry Threadgill: The Complete Novus and Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)

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