Jazz Critics Poll: 2009
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Totals: Reissues: 2009

  1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Recordings (1935-1946) (Mosaic) 46 (17)
  2. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve) 42 (16)
  3. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note) 20 (11)
  4. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige) 20 (10)
  5. Denny Zeitlin: Mosaic Select: The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions (Mosaic) 18 (7)
  6. Billie Holiday: The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters (Hip-O-Select/Verve) 15 (7)
  7. Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy) 14 (8)
  8. Charles Tyler: Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa) 14 (7)
  9. Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Columbia/Legacy) 14 (6)
  10. Tony Bennett & Bill Evans: The Complete Recordings (Fantasy) 12 (6)
  11. Codona (Don Cherry-Nana Vasconcelos-Collin Walcott): The Codona Trilogy (ECM) 12 (6)
  12. Art Pepper: The Art History Project: Unreleased Art Vol. IV (Widow's Taste) 11 (6)
  13. Eddie Harris & Ellis Marsalis: Homecoming (ELM) 10 (7)
  14. Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy) 10 (5)
  15. Lester Bowie: All the Numbers (Nessa) 10 (4)
  16. Dave Brubeck: Time Out (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy) 8 (4)
  17. Miles Davis & Sonny Rollins: The Classic Prestige Sessions, 1951-1956 (Prestige) 8 (4)
  18. Bill Evans: Turn Out The Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings (Nonesuch) 8 (3)
  19. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy) 7 (4)
  20. Gary Burton & Chick Corea: Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings 1972-79 (ECM) 7 (3)
  21. Peter Kowald: Open Secrets (FMP) 7 (3)
  22. Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious (Nessa) 7 (3)
  23. Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree (Hatology) 7 (3)
  24. Air: Air Song (Why Not) 6 (2)
  25. Revolutionary Ensemble: Vietnam (ESP-Disk) 5 (4)
  26. John Handy: Mosaic Select (Mosaic) 5 (3)
  27. Artie Shaw: Classic Artie Shaw Bluebird and Victor Sessions (Mosaic) 5 (3)
  28. Ronnie Boykins: The Will Come, Is Now (ESP-Disk) 5 (2)
  29. Anthony Braxton: (Hatology) 5 (2)
  30. Ted Curson: Jubilant Power (Inner City) 5 (2)
  31. Elton Dean: Happy Daze/Oh! for the Edge (Ogun) 5 (2)
  32. Scott LaFaro: Pieces of Jade (Resonance) 4 (2)
  33. Fela Kuti: The Best of the Black President (Knitting Factory) 3 (2)
  34. Fud Livingston: The Story of Joseph "Fud" Livingston (Jazz Oracle) 3 (2)
  35. Grachan Moncur III: Some Other Stuff (Blue Note) 3 (2)
  36. Horace Parlan: Up & Down (Blue Note) 3 (2)
  37. Oscar Peterson: Debut: The Clef/Mercury Duo Recordings 1949-1951 (Hip-O Select/Verve) 3 (2)
  38. Various Artists: Freedom Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz 1963-1982 (Soul Jazz) 3 (2)

Note: Transfer from new albums votes for Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood: 3 points each from Hajdu, Lorge.