Jazz Critics Poll: 2010

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2010 Totals: Debuts

1. Lisa Mezzacappa: What Is Known (Clean Feed) 5
2. Gregory Porter: Water (Motema) 5
3. Eric Harland: Voyager: Live By Night (Space Time) 4
4. Terry Clarke: It's About Time (Blue Music Group) 3*
5. Bizingas: Bizingas (NCM East) 3
6. Mike Fahie: Anima (BJU) 3
7. Dana Hall: Into the Light (Origin) 3*
8. Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released) 3
9. Dawn of Midi: First (Accretions) 2
10. Dymaxion Quartet: Sympathetic Vibrations (self-released) 2
Cochemea Gastelum: The Electric Sound of Johnny Arrow (Mowo/Hyena) 2
11. Mason Brothers: Two Sides One Story (Archival) 2
12. RED Trio: RED Trio (Clean Feed) 2
13. Adam Schroeder: A Handful of Stars (Capri) 2
14. Ken Thomson & Slow/Fast: It Would Be Easier If (Intuition) 2
16. Alaturka: Tamam Abi (Tzigane) 1
17. Newman Taylor Baker: Drum Suite Life (Innova) 1
18. Dave Bass: Gone (Dave Bass Music) 1
19. Black Butterflies: 1 De Mayo (self-released) 1
20. Hugo Carvalhais: Nebulosa (Clean Feed) 1
Jeff Chang: It's Not What You Think (Chee May) 1
21. Joe Daley: Seven Deadly Sins (JARO) 1
22. Jeff Davis: We Sleep Outside (Loyal) 1
23. Chris Donnelly: Solo (Alma) 1
24. Tania Gill: Bolger Station (Barnyard) 1
25. Grex: Live at Home (SUA) 1
26. Sameer Gupta: Namaskar (Motema) 1
27. Randy Ingram: The Road Ahead (BJU) 1
28. Jailbreak: The Rocker (Family Vineyard) 1
29. Michael Janisch: Purpose Built (Whirlwind ) 1
Thomson Kneeland: Mazurka for a Modern Man (Weltschmerz) 1
30. Latineo: Two Ways (Walboomers) 1
31. Jonathan Lorentz: Borderlands (Metier) 1
32. Luisa Maita: Lero-Lero (Cumbancha) 1
33. Margret: Com Voce (Sunnyside) 1
34. Hailey Niswanger: Confeddie (self-released) 1
35. Darwin Noguera: The Gardener (Chicago Sessions) 1
36. Richie Pardo: I Get the Message, Volume 1: The Genius of Oscar Pettiford (self-released) 1
37. Matt Panayides: Tapestries of Song (Pacific Coast Jazz) 1
38. Peripheral Vision: Peripheral Vision (Step3) 1
The Rent: Musique de Steve Lacy (Ambiances Magnetiques) 1
39. Nick Rosen: Into the Sky (Porter) 1
40. Dolores Scozzesi: A Special Taste (Rhombus) 1
41. Suresh Singaratnam: Lost in New York (Suresong Music) 1
42. Matt Slocum: Portraits (Chandra) 1
43. Milton Suggs: Things to Come (Skiptone) 1
44. Erik Telford: Kinetic (EJT) 1
45. Richard Thompson: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Arabesque) 1
46. Greg Ward: South Side Story (19/8) 1
47. World Service Project: Relentless (self-released) 1
Jesper Zeuthenn: Eponymous (Blackout) 1

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