2010 Totals: New Albums

Jazz Critics Poll: 2010

2010 Totals: New Albums

Jason Moran: Ten (Blue Note) 376.5 (50)
Rudresh Mahanthappa & Bunky Green: Apex (Pi) 259 (34)
Mary Halvorson: Saturn Sings (Firehouse 12) 175.5 (27)
Charles Lloyd: Mirror (ECM) 150 (23)
Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To Volume II (Pi) 131 (22)
Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine (ECM) 122 (21)
Steve Coleman: Harvesting Semblances and Affinities (Pi) 112.5 (21)
Vijay Iyer: Solo (ACT) 109 (17)
Geri Allen: Flying Toward the Sound (Motema) 105 (17)
Paul Motian: Lost in a Dream (ECM) 90.5 (14)

Dave Holland: Pathways (Dare2) 85 (13)

Chris Lightcap: Bigmouth Deluxe (Clean Feed) 83.5 (13)
Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider (Nonesuch) 78 (13)
Myra Melford: The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12) 77 (12)
James Moody: 4B (IPO) 77 (11)
Randy Weston: The Storyteller (Motema) 76 (11)
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort (Hot Cup) 70 (9)
Marc Ribot: Silent Movies (Pi) 69.5 (11)
Fred Hersch: Whirl (Palmetto) 65 (15)
Regina Carter: Reverse Thread (E1) 61 (10)

The Claudia Quintet: Royal Toast (Cuneiform) 57 (11)

Danilo Perez: Providencia (Mack Avenue) 56 (9)
Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord) 53 (9)
Nels Cline Singers: Initiate (Cryptogramophone) 52 (9)
Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth: The Micros Play Monk (Cuneiform) 46.5 (9)
Tomasz Stanko: Dark Eyes (ECM) 46 (7*)
Michael Formanek: The Rub and Spare Change (ECM) 45.5 (9)
Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman: Dual Identity (Clean Feed) 42 (8)
Mike Reed: Stories and Negotiations (482 Music) 41.5 (10)
Tom Harrell: Roman Nights (High Note) 40 (7)

Irene Kral: Second Chance (Jazzed Media) 39 (5)

Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes: Double Portrait (Blue Note) 38.5 (7)
Steve Lacy: November (Intakt) 38 (6)
William Parker: Uncle Joe's Spirit House (Centering) 37.5 (5)
Ideal Bread: Transmit: Music of Steve Lacy (Cuneiform) 36 (8)
Billy Bang: Prayer for Peace (TUM) 35 (8)
John Escreet: Don't Fight the Inevitable (Mythology) 35 (6)
Evan Parker-Barry Guy-Paul Lytton-Peter Evans: Scenes in the House of Music (Clean Feed) 34.5 (4)
Jason Adasiewicz: Sun Rooms (Delmark) 34 (6)
Kris Davis-Ingrid Laubrock-Tyshawn Sorey: Paradoxical Frog (Clean Feed) 34 (6)

William Parker: I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield (AUM Fidelity) 33 (5)

Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside) 32 (8)
Lee Konitz: Live at the Village Vanguard (Enja) 31.5 (5)
Nels Cline: Dirty Baby (Cryptogramophone) 31.5 (4)
Wadada Leo Smith & Ed Blackwell: The Blue Mountain's Sun Drummer (Kabell) 30 (7)
Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up) 29 (5)
Either/Orchestra: Mood Music for Time Travellers (Accurate) 27.5 (6)
The Bad Plus: Never Stop (E1) 27 (9)
Chucho Valdes: Chucho's Steps (Four Quarters) 27 (5)
Pat Metheny: Orchestrion (Nonesuch) 27 (4)

Clayton Brothers: The New Song and Dance (ArtistShare) 26 (4)

Mike Mainieri: Crescent (NYC) 25 (4)
Chet Baker: The Sesjun Radio Shows (Out of the Blue/T2) 25 (3)
Dave Douglas: Spark of Being: Burst (Greenleaf) 24.5 (5)
Steve Colson: The Untarnished Dream (Silver Sphinx) 24 (5)
Tarbaby: The End of Fear (Posi-Tone) 24 (5)
Amir ElSaffar & Hafez Modirzadeh: Radif Suite (Pi) 24 (4)
Matthew Shipp: 4D (Thirsty Ear) 23 (6)
Anat Cohen: Clarinetwork: Live at the Village Vanguard (Anzic) 23 (5)
Ted Nash & Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Portrait in Seven Shades (JLCO) 23 (4)

Odean Pope: Odean's List (In + Out) 23 (4)

Dominic Duval & Cecil Taylor: The Last Dance (Cadence) 23 (3)
Bobby McFerrin: VOCAbuLaries (Emarcy) 23 (3)
Denny Zeitlin: Precipice (Sunnyside) 23 (3)
John Ellis: Puppet Mischief (ObliqSound) 22 (4)
Roscoe Mitchell: Far Side (ECM) 22 (4)
Ches Smith & These Arches: Finally Out of My Hands (Skirl) 22 (3)
Decoy & Joe McPhee: Oto (Bo'Weavil) 21 (3)
Kenny Dorham: The Flamboyan, Queens, NY, 1963 (Uptown) 21 (3)
Ryan Keberle: Heavy Dreaming (Alternate Side) 21 (3)

ROVA & Nels Cline Singers: The Celestial Septet (New World) 20.5 (3)

Rez Abbasi: Natural Selection (Sunnyside) 20 (4)
: Enescu Re-Imagined (Sunnyside) 20 (4)
Anat Fort: And If (ECM) 20 (4)
Catherine Russell: Inside This Heart of Mine (World Village) 20 (4)
Steve Turre: Delicious and Delightful (HighNote) 19 (3)
Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley: Ailanthus/Altissima (Bilateral Dimensions of Two Root Songs) (Triple Point) 19 (2)
Jon Irabagon: Foxy (Hot Cup) 18.5 (6)
Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony (Blue Note) 18 (5)
Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock (Half Note) 18 (3)

Ingrid Laubrock: Anti-House (Intakt) 18 (3)

Fred Anderson: Black Horn Long Gone (Southport) 18 (2)
Dee Dee Bridgewater: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee (Emarcy) 18 (2)
Fight the Big Bull: All Is Gladness in the Kingdom (Clean Feed) 17 (4)
Dave Liebman: As Always (MAMA) 17 (3)
Anthony Braxton & Gerry Hemingway: Old Dogs (2007) (Mode) 17 (2)
Brad Goode: Tight Like This (Delmark) 17 (2)
Joel Harrison: The Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside) 17 (2)
Cookers: Warriors (Jazz Legacy) 16 (4)
Bill Frisell: Beautiful Dreamers (Savoy Jazz) 16 (4)

Omar Sosa & NDR Bigband: Ceremony () 16 (4)

Howard Wiley: 12 Gates to the City (HNIC Music) 16 (4)
Rufus Reid: Out Front (Motema) 16 (3)
AMM & John Butcher: Sounding Music (Matchless) 16 (2)
Jeff Chan: Horns of Plenty (Asian Improv) 16 (2)
Geri Allen and Timeline: Live (Motema) 15 (3)
Ray Anderson & Marty Ehrlich: Hear You Say: Live in Willisau (Intuition) 15 (3)
: Spiritual Lover (Clean Feed) 15 (3)
Adam Lane: Ashcan Rantings (Clean Feed) 15 (3)
Ullmann/Swell 4: News? No News! (Jazzwerkstatt) 15 (3)

: The Sixth Jump (Songlines) 15 (2)

Paquito D'Rivera: Tango Jazz: Live at Lincoln Center (Sunnyside) 15 (2)
David S. Ware: Saturnian (AUM Fidelity) 15 (2)
Frank Kimbrough: Rumors (Palmetto) 14 (3)
Azar Lawrence: Mystic Journey (Furthermore) 14 (3)
Lionel Loueke: Mwaliko (Blue Note) 14 (3)
Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu: Chiaroscuro (ECM) 14 (3)
Jessica Williams: Touch (Origin) 14 (3)
Little Women: Throat (AUM Fidelity) 14 (2)
Mark Lomax: The State of Black America (Inarhyme) 14 (2)

Rebecca Martin: When I Was Long Ago (Sunnyside) 14 (2)

Barry Harris: Live in Rennes (Plus Loin) 13.5 (3)
Sam Newsome: Blue Soliloquy (Solo Works for Soprano Saxophone) (self-released) 13.5 (3)
Greg Lewis: Organ Monk (self-released) 13 (3)
Scott Amendola: Lift (Sazi) 13 (2)
Ross Bolleter: Night Kitchen (2002-2009) (Emanem) 13 (2)
Maurice Brown: The Cycle of Love (Brown) 13 (2)
Bill Carrothers: Joy Spring (Pirouet) 13 (2)
Circulasione Totale Orchestra: Bandwidth (Rune Grammofon) 13 (2)
Billy Childs: Autumn: In Moving Pictures (ArtistShare) 13 (2)

Jazz Passengers: Reunited (Justin Time) 13 (2)

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis: Vitoria Suite (Emarcy) 13 (2)
David Weiss: Snuck In (Sunnyside) 13 (2)
John Zorn: Ipsissimus (Tzadik) 13 (2)
Jacky Terrasson: Push (Concord) 12 (4)
Evan Christopher: The Remembering Song (Arbors) 12 (3)
Bruce Barth & Steve Wilson: Home (WASJS) 12 (2)
Michael Dease: Grace (Jazz Legacy) 12 (2)
John McNeil & Bill McHenry: Chill Morn He Climb Jenny (Sunnyside) 12 (2)
Liam Sillery: Phenomenology (OA2) 12 (2)

Dan Weiss: Timshel (Sunnyside) 12 (2)

Cyrus Chestnut: Journeys (Jazz Legacy) 11.5 (2)
Dave Liebman-Evan Parker-Tony Bianco: Relevance (Red Toucan) 11.5 (2)
Erica Lindsay & Sumi Tonooka: Initiation (ARC) 11.5 (2)
Geof Bradfield: African Flowers (Origin) 11 (4)
Dmitry Baevsky: Down With It (Sharp Nine) 11 (3)
Richie Beirach & Dave Liebman: Quest for Freedom (Sunnyside) 11 (3)
Keefe Jackson: Seeing You See (Clean Feed) 11 (3)
Art Pepper: Unreleased Art, Vol. V (Widow's Taste) 11 (3)
Kurt Rosenwinkel: Our Secret World (Word of Mouth) 11 (3)

Joshua Abrams: Natural Information (Eremite) 11 (2)

Dan Block: From His World to Mine (Miles High) 11 (2)
Lorraine Feather: Ages (Jazzed Media) 11 (2)
Benjamin Herman: Hypochristmastreefuzz: More Mengelberg (Dox) 11 (2)
Tony Malaby: Tamarindo Live (Clean Feed) 11 (2)
New York Art Quartet: Old Stuff (Cuneiform) 11 (2)
Evan Parker: Set (Eminem) 11 (2)
John Pizzarelli: Rockin' in Rhythm (Telarc) 11 (2)
Stephan Crump: Reclamation (Sunnyside) 10.5 (2)
: Llyria (ECM) 10 (2)

Avishai Cohen: Introducing Triveni (Anzic) 10 (2)

Eli Degibri: Israeli Song (Anzic) 10 (2)
Dave Liebman: Turnaround: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Jazzwerkstatt) 10 (2)
Warren Vache & John Allred: Top Shelf (Arbors) 10 (2)
Muhal Richard Abrams & Roscoe Mitchell: Spectrum (Mutable) 10 (1)
Afrocubism: Afrocubism (Nonesuch) 10 (1)
: 3 Nights in Oslo (Smalltown Superjazz) 10 (1)
Mike Clark: Carnival of Soul (Owl Studios) 10 (1)
Jay Clayton: In and Out of Love (Sunnyside) 10 (1)
Andrew Cyrille & Greg Osby: Low Blue Flame (TUM) 10 (1)

Bill Dixon-Aaron Siegel-Ben Hall: Weight/Counterweight (Brokenresearch) 10 (1)

Tigran Hamasyan: Red Hail (Plus Loin) 10 (1)
Hiromi: Place to Be (Telarc) 10 (1)
ICP Orchestra: ICP Orchestra (ICP) 10 (1)
Sum Invenio: Ergo (Matchless) 10 (1)
Junko Onishi: Baroque (Verve) 10 (1)
Scott Robinson-Marshall Allen-Pat O'Leary-Kevin Norton: Live at Space Farms (ScienSonic) 10 (1)
Thomas Savy: French Suite (Plus Loin) 10 (1)
Chris Schlarb: Psychic Temple (Asthmatic Kitty) 10 (1)
Walter Smith III: III (Criss Cross) 10 (1)

Lew Soloff, Steve Richman and Harmonie Ensemble New York: Sketches of Spain (Sheffield Lab) 10 (1)

: Fabula Suite Lugano (ECM) 10 (1)
Joost Buis & Astronotes: Zoomin (Data) 9.5 (2)
Curtis Fuller: I Will Tell Her (Capri) 9.5 (2)
Angles: Epileptical West (Clean Feed) 9 (2)
Jeb Bishop: 2009 (Better Animal) 9 (2)
Nils Petter Molvaer: Hamada (Thirsty Ear) 9 (2)
Mike Pride: Betweenwhile (AUM Fidelity) 9 (2)
Michael Jefry Stevens-Tim Siegel-Jeff Ferguson: Six (Konnex) 9 (2)
Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau (Intakt) 9 (2)

Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky: In Search of a Standard (Leo) 9 (2)

Duke Ellington: The Great Concerts London & New York 1963-1964 (Nimbus) 9 (1)
Mark Feldman & Sylvie Courvoisier: Oblivia (Tzadik) 9 (1)
Dana Hall: Into the Light (Origin) 9 (1)
Hilary Kole: You Are There (Justin Time) 9 (1)
: Jugendstil II (ESP-Disk) 9 (1)
Warne Marsh: New York City Live (Riverworks) 9 (1)
Sei Miguel: (Clean Feed) 9 (1)
Oregon: In Stride (CAM Jazz) 9 (1)
Gail Pettis: Here in the Moment (OA2) 9 (1)

Supersilent: 10 (Rune Grammofon) 9 (1)

Trio X: Live on Tour 2008 (CIMP) 9 (1)
Ken Vandermark & Paal Nilssen-Love: Milwaukee Volume (Smalltown Superjazz) 9 (1)
Bob Wilber: Is Here (Arbors) 8.5 (2)
Houston Person: Moment to Moment (HighNote) 8 (3)
Marilyn Crispell & David Rothenberg: One Dark Night I Left My Silent House (ECM) 8 (2)
Tamir Hendelman: Destinations (Resonance) 8 (2)
Jean-Michel Pilc: True Story (Dreyfus) 8 (2)
Ellen Rowe: Wishing Well (PKO) 8 (2)
Yusef Lateef & Adam Rudolph: Towards the Unknown (Meta) 8 (2)

Antonio Sanchez: Live in New York at the Jazz Standard (CAM Jazz) 8 (2)

Trombone Shorty: Backatown (Verve Forecast) 8 (2)
Lina Allemano: Jargon (Independent) 8 (1)
Bobby Carcasses: De la Habana a Nueva York (Vero) 8 (1)
Jacques Coursil: Trails of Tears (Sunnyside) 8 (1)
Harris Eisenstadt: Woodblock Prints (NoBusiness) 8 (1)
Alan Ferber: Chamber Songs: Music for Nonet and Strings (Sunnyside) 8 (1)
Herbie Hancock: The Imagine Project (Herbie Hancock) 8 (1)
Eddie Henderson: For All We Know (Furthermore) 8 (1)
Daniel Humair: Pas de Dense (Zig Zag) 8 (1)

Eli Keszler: Oxtirn (ESP-Disk) 8 (1)

Jon Lundbom: Accomplish Jazz (Hot Cup) 8 (1)
Marsalis Family: Music Redeemed (Marsalis Music) 8 (1)
John McLaughlin: For the One (Mediastarz/Abstract Logix) 8 (1)
Lisa Mezzacappa: What Is Known (Clean Feed) 8 (1)
: Summer Works 2009 (Emanem) 8 (1)
Terje Rypdal: Crime Scene (ECM) 8 (1)
Eri Yamamoto: In Each Day, Something Good (AUM Fidelity) 8 (1)
Scott Colley: Empire (CAM Jazz) 7.5 (3)
Cindy Blackman: Another Lifetime (Four Quarters) 7.5 (2)

Exploding Star Orchestra: Stars Have Shapes (Delmark) 7 (2)

Mingus Big Band: Live at Jazz Standard (Jazz Workshop/Jazz Standard) 7 (2)
Jason Robinson: The Two Faces of Janus (Cuneiform) 7 (2)
Absolute Ensemble: Absolute Zawinul (Sunnyside) 7 (1)
Mose Allison: The Way of the World (Anti-) 7 (1)
Derek Bailey: More 74 (Incus) 7 (1)
Marc Cary: Focus Trio Live 2009 (Motema) 7 (1)
Bill Easley: Love Stories (American Showplace) 7 (1)
Robin Holcomb & Wayne Horvitz: The Point of It All (Songlines) 7 (1)
Abdullah Ibrahim: Bombella (Sunnyside) 7 (1)

Frank Macchia: Folk Songs for Jazzers (Cacophony) 7 (1)

Pat Mallinger: Dragon Fish (Chicago Sessions) 7 (1)
Charnett Moffett: Treasure (Motema) 7 (1)
Evan Parker: Whitstable Solo (Psi) 7 (1)
Ivo Perelman-Daniel Levin-Torbjorn Zetterberg: Soulstorm (Clean Feed) 7 (1)
Louis Sclavis-Craig Taborn-Tom Rainey: Eldorado Trio (Clean Feed) 7 (1)
Shining: Black Jazz (The End) 7 (1)
Mary Stallings: Dream (High Note) 7 (1)
Milton Suggs: Things to Come (Skiptone) 7 (1)
Vox Arcana: Aerial Age (Allos Documents) 7 (1)

Rachel Z & Omar Hakim: Trio of Oz (Ozmosis) 7 (1)

Various Artists: Treme: Music From the HBO Series, Season 1 (Geffen) 7 (1)
Russell Malone: Triple Play (MaxJazz) 6.5 (2)
: Blue Chicago Blues (Not Two) 6.5 (2)
Dave Douglas: Spark of Being: Expand (Greenleaf) 6 (2)
Hamid Drake: Reggaeology (RogueArt) 6 (2)
Ken Thomson & Slow/Fast: It Would Be Easier If (Intuition) 6 (2)
Sarah Wilson: Trapeze Project (Brass Tonic) 6 (2)
Juhani Aaltonen: Conclusions (TUM) 6 (1)
Alaturka: Tamam Abi (Tzigane) 6 (1)

Architeuthis Walks on Land: Natura Naturans (Carrier) 6 (1)

Atomic: Theater Tilters Vol. 1 (Jazzland) 6 (1)
David Boykin: Ultra Sheen (Sonic Healing Ministries) 6 (1)
Peter Evans: Live in Lisbon (Clean Feed) 6 (1)
Food: Quiet Inlet (ECM) 6 (1)
Erik Friedlander: Fifty (Skipstone) 6 (1)
Jan Garbarek & the Hilliard Ensemble: Officium Novum (ECM) 6 (1)
Sameer Gupta: Namaskar (Motema) 6 (1)
: BlackMagic (Brownswood) 6 (1)
Thomson Kneeland: Mazurka for a Modern Man (Innova) 6 (1)

Lage Lund: Unlikely Stories (Criss Cross) 6 (1)

Joe Magnarelli: My Old Flame (GIVE@GO) 6 (1)
Wynton Marsalis & Richard Galliano: From Billie Holiday to Edith Piaf (Wynton Marsalis Enterprises) 6 (1)
Dan Pratt: Toe the Line (Posi-Tone) 6 (1)
Dave Rempis & Frank Rosaly: Cyrillic (482 Music) 6 (1)
G9 Gipfel: Berlin (Jazzwerkstatt) 6 (1)
Wee Trio: Capitol Diner, Vol. 2 (Bionic) 6 (1)
Marshall Allen-Matthew Shipp-Joe Morris: Night Logic (RogueArt) 5.5 (1)
Bizingas: Bizingas (NCM East) 5.5 (1)
Michael Blake: Hellbent (Label of Love) 5.5 (1)

: Cape of Storms (Ayler) 5.5 (1)

Owen Howard: Drum Lore (BJU) 5.5 (1)
Joe Morris & Nate Wooley: Tooth and Nail (Clean Feed) 5.5 (1)
Harold O'Neal: Whirling Mantis (Smalls) 5.5 (1)
Aki Takase: A Week Went By (Psi) 5.5 (1)
Fred Van Hove-Paul Dunmall-Paul Rogers-Paul Lytton: Asynchronous (Slam) 5.5 (1)
Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra: India & Africa (Water Baby) 5 (2)
Orrin Evans: Faith in Action (Posi-Tone) 5 (2)
Ahmad Jamal: A Quiet Time (Dreyfus) 5 (2)
Torben Waldorf: American Rock Beauty (ArtistShare) 5 (2)

Abraham Inc.: Tweet Tweet (Table Pounding) 5 (1)

Howard Alden: I Remember Django (Arbors) 5 (1)
Artvark Saxophone Quartet: Truffles (Challenge) 5 (1)
Atomic: Theater Tilters Vol. 2 (Jazzland) 5 (1)
Anthony Braxton: GTM (Outpost) 2003 (Leo) 5 (1)
Evan Christopher: Finesse (Fremeaux) 5 (1)
Nat King Cole: The Forgotten 1949 Carnegie Hall Concert (Hep) 5 (1)
Jamie Cullum: The Pursuit (Verve) 5 (1)
Benoit Delbecq: Circles and Calligrams (Songlines) 5 (1)
Daniele D'Agaro-Alexander von Schlippenbach-Han Bennink: Fingerprints (Artesuono) 5 (1)

Marc Edwards & Weasel Walter: Blood of the Earth (UgExplode) 5 (1)

Garrison Fewell: Sound Particle 47 (Creative Nation) 5 (1)
Tia Fuller: Decisive Steps (Mack Avenue) 5 (1)
Bill Gagliardi: Mr. Fubar, I Presume (CIMP) 5 (1)
Hal Galper: E Pluribus Unum (Origin) 5 (1)
Dave Holland & Pepe Habichuela: Hands (Dare2) 5 (1)
Sherman Irby: Live at the Otto Club (Black Warrior) 5 (1)
Jonas Knutsson: (Country & Eastern) 5 (1)
Manolito y su Trabuco: Beat Cubano (BIS) 5 (1)
Joe McPhee-Dominic Duval-Jay Rosen-Mikolaj Trzaska: Magic (Not Two) 5 (1)

Jeremy Pelt: Men of Honor (HighNote) 5 (1)

Rangda: False Flag (Drag City) 5 (1)
Claudio Roditi: Simpatico (Resonance) 5 (1)
Paul Rutherford: Tetralogy (Emanem) 5 (1)
Gil Scott-Heron: I'm New Here (XL) 5 (1)
Karl E.H. Seigfried: Portrait of Jack Johnson (Imaginary Chicago) 5 (1)
Aram Shelton: Two Cities (Delmark) 5 (1)
Soft Machine: NDR Jazz Workshop, Germany, May 17, 1973 (Cuneiform) 5 (1)
Dan Tepfer: Five Pedals Deep (Sunnyside) 5 (1)
Richard Thompson: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Arabesque) 5 (1)

Baptiste Trotignon: Suite . . . (Naive) 5 (1)

Matt Wilson: Christmas Tree-O (Palmetto) 5 (1)
Gregory Porter: Water (Motema) 4 (3)
David S. Ware: Onecept (AUM Fidelity) 4 (2)
Eivind Aarset: Live Extracts (Jazzland) 4 (1)
Leny Andrade: Alma Mia (Microchoice Brazil) 4 (1)
Michael Attias: Twines of Colesion (Clean Feed) 4 (1)
Carlos Bica & Materia-Prima: Carlos Bica & Materia-Prima (Clean Feed) 4 (1)
Federico Britos: Voyage (Sunnyside) 4 (1)
Taylor Ho Bynum & Tomas Fujiwara: Stepwise (Not Two) 4 (1)

Frank Carlberg: Tivoli Trio (Red Piano) 4 (1)

Antonio Ciacca: Lagos Blues (Motema) 4 (1)
Freddy Cole: Sings Mr. B (HighNote) 4 (1)
Correction: Two Nights in April (Ayler) 4 (1)
Scott DuBois: Black Hawk Dance (Sunnyside) 4 (1)
The Engines: Wire and Brass (Okka Disk) 4 (1)
Satoko Fujii: Zakopane (Libra) 4 (1)
Cochemea Gastelum: The Electric Sound of Johnny Arrow (Mowo/Hyena) 4 (1)
Eric Hofbauer: American Fear! (Creative Nation) 4 (1)
: For All We Know (Impulse) 4 (1)

Michael Janisch: Purpose Built (Whirlwind) 4 (1)

Christine Jensen: Treelines (Justin Time) 4 (1)
Olivier Manchon: And Miniature Chamber Orchestra (ObliqSound) 4 (1)
Nellie McKay: Home Sweet Mobile Home (Verve) 4 (1)
Evan Parker & Sten Sandell: Psalms (Psi) 4 (1)
Edward Ratliff: Those Moments Before (Strudelmedia) 4 (1)
Aldo Romano: Origine (Dreyfus) 4 (1)
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: Stems and Cages (MNR) 4 (1)
The Vandermark 5: The Horse Jumps and the Ship Is Gone (Not Two) 4 (1)
Weasel Walter: Invasion (ugExplode) 4 (1)

Nicole Mitchell: Emerald Hills (RogueArt) 3 (3)

SFJazz Collective: Live 2010: The Works of Horace Silver (SFJazz) 3 (3)
Allison Miller: Boom Tic Boom (Foxhaven) 3 (2)
Jason Ajemian & the High Life: Let Me Get That (Digital Sundmagi) 3 (1)
Ralph Alessi: Cognitive Dissonance (CAM Jazz) 3 (1)
Dave Bass: Gone (Dave Bass Music) 3 (1)
Big Band Mamborama: Big Band Mamborama (Russi) 3 (1)
: Remembrance (ECM) 3 (1)
Ran Blake & Christine Correa: Out of the Shadows (Red Piano) 3 (1)
Stefano Bollani: Stone in the Water (ECM) 3 (1)

Alan Broadbent: Live at Giannelli Square, Volume 1 (Chilly Bin) 3 (1)

Joe Chambers: Horace to the Max (Savant) 3 (1)
Denise Donatelli: When Lights Are Low (Savant) 3 (1)
James Falzone: Lamentations (Allos) 3 (1)
First Meeting: Cut the Rope (Libra) 3 (1)
Mac Gollehon: Mac Straight Ahead (American Showplace) 3 (1)
David Hazeltine: Inversions (Criss Cross) 3 (1)
Holly Hofmann & Bill Cunliffe: Three's Company (Capri) 3 (1)
Michael Musillami: Old Tea (Playscape) 3 (1)
No Mor Musik: No Mor Musik (ugExplode) 3 (1)

Ken Peplowski: Noir (Blue Capri) 3 (1)

Tom Rainey: Pool School (Clean Feed) 3 (1)
Pete Robbins: siLENT Z Live (Hate Laugh Music) 3 (1)
Jason Robinson & Anthony Davis: Cerulean Landscape (Clean Feed) 3 (1)
Kurt Rosenwinkel: Reflections (Wommusic) 3 (1)
Scoolptures: Materiale Umano (Leo) 3 (1)
Tierney Sutton: Desire (Telarc) 3 (1)
Julian F. Thayer-Jarmo Savolainen-Scott Robinson-Klaus Suonsaari: Norwegian Invention (KS Jazz) 3 (1)
Toots Thielemans: The Live Takes (In+Out) 3 (1)
John Scofeld-Vince Mendoza-Metropole Orkest: 54 (Emarcy) 2 (2)

Nate Wooley: Trumpet/Amplifier (Smeraldina-Rima) 2 (2)

Harry Allen: New York State of Mind (Challenge) 2 (1)
Ken Berman: Looking Forward (MMG) 2 (1)
Steve Cardenas: West of Middle (Sunnyside) 2 (1)
Alexis Cole: Someday My Prince Will Come (Venus) 2 (1)
Contact: Five on One (Pirouet) 2 (1)
Rich Corpolongo: Get Happy (Delmark) 2 (1)
Betty Davis: Is It Love or Desire (Light in the Attic) 1 (1)
Tomas Fujiwara: Actionspeak (482 Music) 2 (1)
Dan Gailey: What Did You Dream? (OA2) 2 (1)

Ben Goldberg: Go Home (Bag) 2 (1)

Larry Goldings & Harry Allen: When Larry Met Harry () 2 (1)
Benito Gonzalez: Circles (Furthermore) 2 (1)
Carolyn Leonhart: Tides of Yesterday (Savant) 2 (1)
Manuel Mengis: Dulcet Crush (Hatology) 2 (1)
One for All: One for All (Jazz Legacy) 2 (1)
Jason Palmer: Nothing to Hide (SteepleChase) 2 (1)
Janet Planet: Sings the Bob Dylan Songbook Volume 1 (Stellar) 2 (1)
Mike Reed: Empathetic Parts (482 Music) 2 (1)
John Russell: Hyste (Psi) 2 (1)

Sam Sadigursky: The Words Project III: Miniatures (New Amsterdam) 2 (1)

Seattle Repertory Jazz Orchestra & Jimmy Heath: The Endless Search (Origin) 2 (1)
Lizz Wright: Fellowship (Verve) 2 (1)
Stephen Haynes: Parrhesia (Engine Studios) 2 (1)
Gabriel Alegria: Pucusana (Alegria) 1 (1)
: Ground Rush (Clean Feed) 1 (1)
Jeff Berlin: High Standards (M.A.J.) 1 (1)
Blue Cranes: Observatories (Blue Cranes) 1 (1)
Bryan and the Haggards: Pretend It's the End of the World (Hot Cup) 1 (1)
John Bunch: Do Not Disturb (Arbors) 1 (1)

Chicago Underground Duo: Boca Negra (Thrill Jockey) 1 (1)

Terry Clarke: It's About Time (Blue Music Group) 1 (1)
Taylor Eigsti: Daylight at Midnight (Concord) 1 (1)
Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali: Spirits Aloft (Porter) 1 (1)
Stacey Kent: Raconte-moi . . . (Blue Note) 1 (1)
Kirk Knuffke: Amnesia Brown (Clean Feed) 1 (1)
Kneebody: You Can Have Your Moment (Winter and Winter) 1 (1)
Masada String Trio: Haborym: The Book of Angels, Vol. 16 (Tzadik) 1 (1)
Necks: Stillwater (ReR) 1 (1)
Meg Okura: Naima (self-released) 1 (1)

Organissimo: Alive & Kickin' (Big O) 1 (1)

Mario Pavone: Arc Suite T/Pi T/Po (Playscape) 1 (1)
Marian Petrescu: Thrivin': Live at Jazz Standard (Resonance) 1 (1)
Julian Waterfall Pollack: Infinite Playground (Junebeat) 1 (1)
Florian Ross: Mechanism (Pirouet) 1 (1)
Matt Slocum: Portraits (Chandra) 1 (1)
Erik Telford: Kinetic (EJT) 1 (1)
Steve Tibbetts: Natural Causes (ECM) 1 (1)
Trio Braam DeJoode Vatcher: Quartet (BBB) 1 (1)
Tim Warfield: A Sentimental Journey (Criss Cross) 1 (1)

Walt Weiskopf: See the Pyramid (Criss Cross) 1 (1)

* Includes 10 (1) from 2009.

Critics were asked to list 10 albums in descending order, with 10 points awarded for their #1, 9 for #2, etc. (On ballots where choices were listed alphabetically, each received 5.5 points.) The first bold number indicates total points; the number in parentheses is the tally of ballots on which a CD appeared, which was used as a tiebreaker.