| Jazz Critics Poll: 2010 |
2010 Totals: Vocals
- Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony (Blue Note) 11
- Irene Kral: Second Chance (Jazzed Media) 7
- Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up) 7
- Theo Bleckmann: I Dwell in Possibility (Winter & Winter) 6
- Dee Dee Bridgewater: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee (Emarcy) 6
- Rebecca Martin: When I Was Long Ago (Sunnyside) 6
- Catherine Russell: Inside This Heart of Mine (World Village) 5
- Norma Winstone: Stories Yet to Tell (ECM) 4
- Freddy Cole: Sings Mr. B (HighNote) 3
- The ExPosed Blues Duo: Bare (Greene Avenue Music) 3
- Jay Clayton: In and Out of Love (Sunnyside) 2
- Ran Blake & Christine Correa: Out of the Shadows (Red Piano) 2
- Denise Donatelli: When Lights Are Low (Savant) 2
- Lorraine Feather: Ages (Jazzed Media) 2
- : BlackMagic (Brownswood) 2
- Gail Pettis: Here in the Moment (OA2) 2
- Gregory Porter: Water (Motema) 2
- Lizz Wright: Fellowship (Verve) 2
- Cheryl Bentyne: The Gershwin Songbook (ArtistShare) 1
- Fay Claasen: Sing! (Challenge) 1
- Alexis Cole: Someday My Prince Will Come (Venus) 1
- Betty Davis: Is It Love or Desire (Light in the Attic) 1
- Issac Delgado: L-O-V-E (Masterworks Jazz) 1
- John Dokes & George Gee: John Dokes Sings, George Gee Swings (Swing Theory) 1
- Lisa Engelken: Caravan (Little Angel) 1
- Stacey Kent: Raconte-moi . . . (Blue Note) 1
- Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside) 1
- Sofia Rei Koutsovitis: Sube Azul (World Village) 1
- Anita O'Day: Skylark (Kayo) 1
- Jack Prather: Shades (Displaced Hip) 1
- Anthony Braxton & Ann Rhodes: GTM (Syntax) 2003 (Leo) 1
- Ran Blake & Sara Serpa: Camera Obscura (Inner Circle Music) 1
- Jon Burr & Lynn Stein: Jon & Lynn (jbQ) 1
- Milton Suggs: Things to Come (Skiptone) 1
- Gabriele Tranchina: A Song of Love's Color (Jazzheads) 1
- Erik Truffaz: Rendez-Vous (Blue Note) 1
Critics were asked to name one album apiece, with no point system.