Jazz Critics Poll: 2009
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David Adler (JazzTimes, Time Out New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David S. Ware: Shakti (AUM Fidelity)
  2. : Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)
  3. Gerald Clayton: Two-Shade (ArtistShare)
  4. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  5. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
  6. Herculaneum: III (Clean Feed)
  7. David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)
  8. Edward Simon: (CAM Jazz)
  9. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  10. SFJazz Collective: Live 2009: The Works of McCoy Tyner (SFJazz)

REISSUES

  1. Tony Bennett & Bill Evans: The Complete Recordings (Fantasy)
  2. Ronnie Boykins: The Will Come, Is Now (ESP-Disk)
  3. Revolutionary Ensemble: Vietnam (ESP-Disk)

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Clifford Allen (All About Jazz-New York, Signal to Noise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
  2. Talibam!: Boogie in the Breeze Blocks (ESP-Disk)
  3. Alexander Hawkins: No Now Is So (FMR)
  4. Joe Morris-John Voigt-Tom Plsek: MVP LSD: The Graphic Scores of Lowell Skinner Davidson (Riti)
  5. Paul Rutherford: Tetralogy (Emanem)
  6. Splinters: Split the Difference (Reel)
  7. Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day (Clean Feed)
  8. Jason Adasiewicz: Varmint (Cuneiform)
  9. Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)
  10. Rob Mazurek: Sound Is (Delmark)

REISSUES

  1. Sunny Murray: Big Chief (Eremite)
  2. Bobby Bradford: With John Stevens and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble (Nessa)
  3. Nathan Davis: Best of Nathan Davis, '65-'76 (Jazzman)

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A.D. Amorosi (Philadelphia Inquirer, BLURT)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  2. Jan Garbarek: Dresden (ECM)
  3. Nellie McKay: Normal as Blueberry Pie (Verve)
  4. Digital Primitives: Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch)
  5. Melody Gardot: My One and Only Thrill (Verve)
  6. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette: Yesterdays (ECM)
  7. Branford Marsalis: Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music)
  8. Theo Bleckmann-John Hollenbeck-Gary Versace: Refuge Trio (Winter & Winter)
  9. Jackie Ryan: Doozy (Open Art)
  10. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)
  2. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  3. Art Pepper: The Art History Project: Unreleased Art Vol. IV (Widow's Taste)

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Larry Applebaum (JazzTimes; WPFW-FM, Washington, DC)

NEW RELEASES

  1. : Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)
  2. Fred Hersch: Plays Jobim (Sunnyside)
  3. Martial Solal: Live at the Village Vanguard (CAM Jazz)
  4. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  5. Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream (ObliqSound)
  6. Keith Jarrett: Paris/London: Testament (ECM)
  7. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)
  8. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  9. John Patitucci: Remembrance (Concord)
  10. Luciana Souza: Tide (Verve)

REISSUES

  1. Codona (Don Cherry-Nana Vasconcelos-Collin Walcott): The Codona Trilogy (ECM)
  2. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)
  3. Art Pepper: The Art History Project: Unreleased Art Vol. IV (Widow's Taste)

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Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal, Village Voice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  2. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  3. Terence Blanchard: Choices (Concord)
  4. Dave Douglas: Spirit Moves (Greenleaf Music)
  5. : Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)
  6. Arturo O'Farrill: Risa Negra (Zoho)
  7. Branford Marsalis: Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music)
  8. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  9. Fred Hersch: Plays Jobim (Sunnyside)
  10. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)
  2. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  3. Eddie Harris & Ellis Marsalis: Homecoming (ELM)

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Bob Blumenthal (Jazz: A Introduction to the History and Legends Behind America's Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. J.D. Allen: Shine! (Sunnyside)
  2. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
  3. Gianluigi Trovesi: Profumo di Violetta (ECM)
  4. Joshua Redman: Compass (Nonesuch)
  5. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  6. Fred Hersch: Plays Jobim (Sunnyside)
  7. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)
  8. John Hollenbeck: Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith: Spiritual Dimensions (Cuneiform)
  10. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)

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Philip Booth (Downbeat, Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
  2. Chuck Owen: Comet's Tail: Performing the Compositions of Michael Brecker (MAMA)
  3. David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)
  4. Tom Harrell: Prana Dance (HighNote)
  5. Kurt Rosenwinkel: Reflections (Word of Mouth Music)
  6. John Patitucci: Remembrance (Concord)
  7. Fly: Sky & Country (ECM)
  8. Joel Harrison: Urban Myths (HighNote)
  9. John Scofield: Piety Street (Emarcy)
  10. New Orleans Nightcrawlers: Slither Slice (Threadhead)

REISSUES

  1. Scott LaFaro: Pieces of Jade (Resonance)
  2. Medeski Martin & Wood: Radiolarians: The Evolutionary Set (Indirecto)
  3. Eddie Harris & Ellis Marsalis: Homecoming (ELM)

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Shaun Brady (Philadelphia Daily News, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  2. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  3. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
  4. Abdullah Ibrahim: Senzo (Sunnyside)
  5. David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)
  6. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  7. Tarbaby: Tarbaby (Imani)
  8. Fly: Sky & Country (ECM)
  9. The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF/Concord)
  10. Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Tony Bennett & Bill Evans: The Complete Recordings (Fantasy)
  3. Sun Ra: Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold (ESP-Disk)

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Marcela Breton (Jazz Journalists Association)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Orbert Davis: Collective Creativity (3Sixteen)
  2. Buika & Chucho Valdes: (WEA International)
  3. Paquito Hechavarria: Frankly ()
  4. Hilton Ruiz: Hilton's Last Note (Hilton Ruiz Music)
  5. Lynne Arriale: Nuance (Motema)
  6. Bobby Sanabria: Kenya Revisited Live!!! (Jazzheads)
  7. Teddy Charles: Dances With Bulls (Smalls)
  8. Sophie Milman: Take Love Easy (Koch)
  9. Pedro Giraudo: El Viaje (PGM)
  10. Azar Lawrence: Prayer for My Ancestors (Furthermore)

REISSUES

  1. Tito Puente: Dance Mania (RCA/Legacy)
  2. Gato Barbieri: Viva Emiliano Zapata (Verve)
  3. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)

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Stuart Broomer (All About Jazz-New York, pointofdeparture.org)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Evan Parker: The Moment's Energy (ECM)
  2. John Butcher: somethingtobesaid (Weight of Wax)
  3. Sun Ra: Live in Cleveland (Golden Years)
  4. Peter Evans: Nature/Culture (Psi)
  5. : Transatlantic Visions (RogueArt)
  6. : (Intakt)
  7. Fast 'n' Bulbous: Waxed Oop (Cuneiform)
  8. Samuel Blaser: Pieces of Old Sky (Clean Feed)
  9. John Hebert: Byzantine Monkey (Firehouse 12)
  10. Komeda Project: Requiem (WM)

REISSUES

  1. Anthony Braxton: (Hatology)
  2. Charles Tyler: Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa)
  3. Sun Ra: Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold (ESP-Disk)

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Alan Chase (The Wire [Portsmouth, NH])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rashied Ali: Live in Europe (Survival)
  2. John Surman: Brewster's Rooster (ECM)
  3. Jerry Bergonzi: Simply Put (Savant)
  4. Charles Tolliver: Emperor March (Savant)
  5. J.D. Allen: Shine! (Sunnyside)
  6. Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream (ObliqSound)
  7. Jan Garbarek: Dresden (ECM)
  8. Matt Wilson: That's Gonna Leave a Mark (Palmetto)
  9. Fly: Sky & Country (ECM)
  10. Jessica Lurie: Shop of Wild Dreams (Jessica Lurie Music)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
  2. Horace Parlan: Up & Down (Blue Note)
  3. Grachan Moncur III: Evolution (Blue Note)

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Nate Chinen (New York Times, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
  2. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  3. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  4. Fly: Sky & Country (ECM)
  5. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  6. Tony Malaby: Paloma Recio (New World)
  7. Buika & Chucho Valdes: (WEA International)
  8. Kurt Rosenwinkel: Reflections (Word of Mouth Music)
  9. J.D. Allen: Shine! (Sunnyside)
  10. David S. Ware: Shakti (AUM Fidelity)

REISSUES

  1. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  2. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)
  3. John Handy: Mosaic Select (Mosaic)

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Fred Cisterna (Signal to Noise, iTunes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tyshawn Sorey: Koan (482 Music)
  2. John Hollenbeck: Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
  3. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  4. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  5. Joshua Redman: Compass (Nonesuch)
  6. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble: Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (Honest Jon's)
  7. Fly: Sky & Country (ECM)
  8. Dave Douglas: A Single Sky (Greenleaf Music)
  9. Alex Cline: Continuation (Cryptogramophone)
  10. Enrico Pieranunzi-Marc Johnson-Joey Baron: Dream Dance (CAM Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Various Artists: Spiritual Jazz: Esoteric, Modal and Deep Jazz From the Underground 1968-1977 (Jazzman)
  2. Various Artists: Freedom Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz 1963-1982 (Soul Jazz)
  3. Bill Evans: Essential Standards (Original Jazz Classics)

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Troy Collins (allaboutjazz.com; pointofdeparture.org)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  2. Corey Wilkes: Cries From Tha Ghetto (Pi)
  3. David S. Ware: Shakti (AUM Fidelity)
  4. Frame Quartet: 35mm (Okka Disk)
  5. John Surman: Brewster's Rooster (ECM)
  6. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  7. Jack DeJohnette-John Patitucci-Danilo Perez: Music We Are (Golden Beams)
  8. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  9. Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
  10. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Ronnie Boykins: The Will Come, Is Now (ESP-Disk)
  2. Grachan Moncur III: Some Other Stuff (Blue Note)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith: Procession of the Great Ancestry (Nessa)

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Thomas Conrad (Stereophile, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Keith Jarrett: Paris/London: Testament (ECM)
  2. Charles Tolliver: Emperor March (Savant)
  3. Gary Burton-Pat Metheny-Steve Swallow-Antonio Sanchez: Quartet Live (Concord)
  4. Arild Andersen-Paolo Vinaccia-Tommy Smith: Live at Belleville (ECM)
  5. Stefano Bollani: Stone in the Water (ECM)
  6. Bill Frisell: Disfarmer (Nonesuch)
  7. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette: Yesterdays (ECM)
  8. Dupree Bolton: Fireball (Uptown)
  9. Grant Stewart: Plays the Music of Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine)
  10. Kurt Rosenwinkel: Reflections (Word of Mouth Music)

REISSUES

  1. Gary Burton & Chick Corea: Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972-79 (ECM)
  2. Art Pepper: The Art History Project: Unreleased Art Vol. IV (Widow's Taste)
  3. Michel Petrucciani: The Complete Dreyfus Jazz Recordings (Dreyfus Jazz)

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Lawrence Cosentino (Signal to Noise, Lansing [MI] City Pulse)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Linda Oh: Entry (Linda Oh Music)
  2. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  3. Gerald Wilson: Detroit (Mack Avenue)
  4. Rob Mazurek: Sound Is (Delmark)
  5. Henry Grimes: Solo (ILK)
  6. Ramsey Lewis: Songs From the Heart (Concord)
  7. Marty Ehrlich: Things Have Got to Change (Clean Feed)
  8. Keith Jarrett: Paris/London: Testament (ECM)
  9. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  10. David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)

REISSUES

  1. Chick Corea & Gary Burton: Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972-79 (ECM)
  2. Chico Freeman: Morning Prayer (Why Not)

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Michael Coyle (WRCU-FM, Colgate University; Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Adam Lane-Lou Grassi-Mark Whitecage: Drunk Butterfly (Clean Feed)
  2. Joel Press & Kyle Aho: Untying the Standard (Cadence Jazz)
  3. Azar Lawrence: Prayer for My Ancestors (Furthermore)
  4. Trio X: 2006 US Tour (CIMPOL)
  5. Ted Sirota: Seize the Time (Naim)
  6. Misha Mengelberg & ICP Orchestra: Live at the Bimhaus (ICP)
  7. Fred Anderson: Live at Velvet Lounge Volume III (Asian Improv)
  8. David Haney-Dominic Duval-Andrew Cyrille: Conspiracy a Go Go (CIMP)
  9. Vyacheslav Guyvoronsky-Andrei Kondakov-Vladimir Volkov: In Search of a Standard (Leo)
  10. Lost Trio: Plays Solid Gold Hits (Evander)

REISSUES

  1. Ted Curson: Jubilant Power (InnerCity)
  2. Peter Kowald: Open Secrets (FMP)
  3. Ernie Krivda: The Alchemist (InnerCity)

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Jason Crane (The Jazz Session)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fay Victor: The FreeSong Suite (Greene Avenue Music)
  2. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  3. Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)
  4. The Fully Celebrated: Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Respect Sextet: Sirius Respect (Mode/Avant)
  6. Ted Sirota: Seize the Time (Naim)
  7. Digital Primitives: Hum Crackle & Pop (Hopscotch)
  8. Terence Blanchard: Choices (Concord)
  9. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
  10. Kat Edmonson: Take to the Sky (Convivium)

REISSUES

  1. Art Pepper: The Art History Project: Unreleased Art Vol. IV (Widow's Taste)
  2. Tony Bennett & Bill Evans: The Complete Recordings (Fantasy)

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Francis Davis (Village Voice, The Atlantic)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  2. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  3. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  4. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  5. Bill Frisell: Disfarmer (Nonesuch)
  6. Carla Bley: Carla's Christmas Carols (Watt/ECM)
  7. Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics: Inspiration Information, Vol. 3 (Strut)
  8. Dave Douglas: Spirit Moves (Greenleaf Music)
  9. Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
  10. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)

REISSUES

  1. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  2. Charles Tyler: Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa)
  3. Eddie Harris & Ellis Marsalis: Homecoming (ELM)

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Steve Dollar (Time Out New York, Stomp & Stammer)

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