Jazz Critics Poll: 2010

2010 Totals: Vocals

  1. Cassandra Wilson: Silver Pony (Blue Note) 11
  2. Irene Kral: Second Chance (Jazzed Media) 7
  3. Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society (Heads Up) 7
  4. Theo Bleckmann: I Dwell in Possibility (Winter & Winter) 6
  5. Dee Dee Bridgewater: Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie With Love From Dee Dee (Emarcy) 6
  6. Rebecca Martin: When I Was Long Ago (Sunnyside) 6
  7. Catherine Russell: Inside This Heart of Mine (World Village) 5
  8. Norma Winstone: Stories Yet to Tell (ECM) 4
  9. Freddy Cole: Sings Mr. B (HighNote) 3
  10. The ExPosed Blues Duo: Bare (Greene Avenue Music) 3
  11. Bobby McFerrin: VOCAbuLaries (Emarcy) 3
  12. Jay Clayton: In and Out of Love (Sunnyside) 2
  13. Ran Blake & Christine Correa: Out of the Shadows (Red Piano) 2
  14. Denise Donatelli: When Lights Are Low (Savant) 2
  15. Lorraine Feather: Ages (Jazzed Media) 2
  16. : BlackMagic (Brownswood) 2
  17. Gail Pettis: Here in the Moment (OA2) 2
  18. Gregory Porter: Water (Motema) 2
  19. Lizz Wright: Fellowship (Verve) 2
  20. Cheryl Bentyne: The Gershwin Songbook (ArtistShare) 1
  21. Judith Berkson: Oylam (ECM) 1
  22. Fay Claasen: Sing! (Challenge) 1
  23. Alexis Cole: Someday My Prince Will Come (Venus) 1
  24. Betty Davis: Is It Love or Desire (Light in the Attic) 1
  25. Issac Delgado: L-O-V-E (Masterworks Jazz) 1
  26. John Dokes & George Gee: John Dokes Sings, George Gee Swings (Swing Theory) 1
  27. Lisa Engelken: Caravan (Little Angel) 1
  28. Stacey Kent: Raconte-moi . . . (Blue Note) 1
  29. Guillermo Klein: Domador de Huellas: Music of "Cuchi" Leguizamon (Sunnyside) 1
  30. Sofia Rei Koutsovitis: Sube Azul (World Village) 1
  31. Nellie McKay: Home Sweet Mobile Home (Verve) 1
  32. Anita O'Day: Skylark (Kayo) 1
  33. Jack Prather: Shades (Displaced Hip) 1
  34. Anthony Braxton & Ann Rhodes: GTM (Syntax) 2003 (Leo) 1
  35. Ran Blake & Sara Serpa: Camera Obscura (Inner Circle Music) 1
  36. Jon Burr & Lynn Stein: Jon & Lynn (jbQ) 1
  37. Milton Suggs: Things to Come (Skiptone) 1
  38. Gabriele Tranchina: A Song of Love's Color (Jazzheads) 1
  39. Erik Truffaz: Rendez-Vous (Blue Note) 1

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