6th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2011

Ballots 2011 [6]

W. Royal Stokes (JJA News, W. Royal Stokes)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Mark Stryker (Detroit Free Press)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Roy Haynes, Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
  2. Terell Stafford, This Side of Strayhorn (MaxJazz)
  3. Sir Roland Hanna, Colors From a Giant (IPO)
  4. Bill Carrothers, Excelsior (Out Note)
  5. We3 [Dave Liebman-Adam Nussbaum-Steve Swallow], Amazing (Kind of Blue)
  6. Tyshawn Sorey, Oblique-1 (Pi)
  7. Tony Malaby, Tamarindo Live (Clean Feed)
  8. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
  9. Gerald Cleaver, Be It as I See It (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  10. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  2. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Sir Roland Hanna, Solo Piano (Storyville)

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John Szwed (Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University; Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  2. Joel Harrison, The Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside)
  3. [Bob Belden], Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (E1)
  4. Jim Black-Trevor Dunn-Oscar Noriega-Chris Speed, Endangered Blood (Skirl)
  5. Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & Dennis González, The Hymn Project (Daagnim)
  6. Juma Sultan, Father of Origin (Eremite)
  7. Ellery Eskelin, New York (Prime Source)
  8. Michael Bates, Acrobat: Music for, and by, Dmitri Shostakovich (Sunnyside)
  9. James Carter, Caribbean Rhapsody (Emarcy)
  10. Benjamin Herman, Hypochristmastreefuzz: More Mengelberg (Dox)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)

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Jeff Tamarkin (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. René Marie, Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motéma)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  3. Becca Stevens, Weightless (Sunnyside)
  4. Tim Hagans, The Moon Is Waiting (Palmetto)
  5. Joshua Redman-Aaron Parks-Matt Penman-Eric Harland, James Farm (Nonesuch)
  6. Pat Martino, Undeniable (HighNote)
  7. Julian Lage, Gladwell (Emarcy)
  8. Honey Ear Trio, Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven)
  9. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
  10. Lynne Arriale, Convergence (Motéma)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Dinah Washington, The Fabulous Miss D!: The Keynote, Decca and Mercury Singles 1943-1953 (Verve)
  3. Art Blakey, Ugetsu: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at Birdland (Riverside)

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Derek Taylor (Dusted, Master of a Small House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Stephen Riley, Lucky Seven (SteepleChase)
  2. Arrive [Aram Shelton], There Was . . . (Clean Feed)
  3. Other Dimensions in Music & Fay Victor, Kaiso Stories (Silkheart)
  4. Ingrid Laubrock, The Madness of Crowds (Intakt)
  5. Nate Wooley & Taylor Ho Bynum, The Throes (CIMP)
  6. Noah Kaplan, Descendants (Hatology)
  7. Kirk Knuffke & Jesse Stacken, Orange Was the Color (SteepleChase)
  8. Starlicker, Double Demon (Delmark)
  9. Harold O'Neal, Marvelous Fantasy (Smalls)
  10. Mike DiRubbo, Chronos (Posi-Tone)

REISSUES

  1. FMP In Rückblick In Retrospect 1969-2010 (FMP)
  2. Von Freeman, Have No Fear (Nessa)
  3. Marion Brown, Geechee Recollections/Sweet Earth Flying (Impulse)

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LATIN

Neil Tesser (Examiner.com, Chicago News Cooperative)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Carrothers, A Night at the Village Vanguard (Pirouet)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Samdhi (ACT)
  3. Dead Cat Bounce, Chance Encounters (Cuneiform)
  4. Pilc Moutin Hoenig, Threedom (Motéma)
  5. Steve Coleman, The Mancy of Sound (Pi)
  6. Klang, Other Doors (Allos Documents)
  7. René Marie, Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motéma)
  8. Jason Stein, The Story This Time (Delmark)
  9. Fred Ho, Big Red (Innova)
  10. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Heiner Stadler, Tribute to Bird and Monk (Labor)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. Roscoe Mitchell, Old/Quartet Sessions (Nessa)

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Greg Thomas (New York Daily News)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Aaron Goldberg & Guillermo Klein, Bienestan (Sunnyside)
  2. Monty Alexander, Harlem-Kingston Express (Motéma)
  3. Christian McBride, Conversations With Christian (Mack Avenue)
  4. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  5. Warren Wolf, Warren Wolf (Mack Avenue)
  6. Julian Lage, Gladwell (Emarcy)
  7. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  8. Christian McBride, The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue)
  9. Gretchen Parlato, The Lost and Found (ObliqSound)
  10. Eric Reed, The Dancing Monk (Savant)

REISSUES

  1. Oliver Nelson, Blues and the Abstract Truth (Impulse)
  2. John Coltrane, Africa Brass (Impulse)
  3. Ray Charles, Genius + Soul=Jazz (Impulse)

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Ludwig Van Trikt (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Farmers by Nature, Out of This World's Distortions (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Landrus Kaleidoscope, Capsule (Blueland)
  3. Cuong Vu, Leaps of Faith (Origin)
  4. FAB Trio, History of Jazz in Reverse (TUM)
  5. Rich Halley, Requiem For a Pit Viper (Pine Eagle)
  6. Starlicker, Double Demon (Delmark)
  7. Tom Harrell, Time of the Sun (HighNote)
  8. Curtis Fuller, The Story of Cathy & Me (Challenge)
  9. Nicole Mitchell, Awakening (Delmark)
  10. Tim Hagans, The Moon Is Waiting (Palmetto)

REISSUES

  1. John Surman, Flashpoint (Cuneiform)
  2. The Jazztet, & John Lewis (Argo)
  3. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)

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George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Keith Jarrett, Rio (ECM)
  2. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  3. Brad Mehldau, Live in Marciac (Nonesuch)
  4. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  5. David Murray, Plays Nat King Cole: En Español (Motéma)
  6. Jen Shyu & Mark Dresser, Synasty (Pi)
  7. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  8. Jeff Gauthier, Open Source (Cryptogramophone)
  9. Claudia Quintet + 1, What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)
  10. Joshua Redman-Aaron Parks-Matt Penman-Eric Harland, James Farm (Nonesuch)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
  3. Modern Jazz Quartet, The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings (Mosaic)

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Seth Colter Walls (Slate, Village Voice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
  2. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)
  3. Peter Evans, Ghosts (More Is More)
  4. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  5. Stephan Crump & Steve Lehman, Kaleidescope and Collage (Intakt)
  6. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  7. Tim Hagans, The Moon Is Waiting (Palmetto)
  8. Tyshawn Sorey, Oblique-1 (Pi)
  9. Jean-Michel Pilc, Essential (Motéma)
  10. Dave Douglas & So Percussion, Bad Mango [Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 3] (Greenleaf Music)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  2. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Derek Bailey, Concert in Milwaukee (Incus)

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Ken Waxman (jazzword.com, The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. World Saxophone Quartet, Yes We Can (Jazzwerkstatt)
  2. Gerald Cleaver, Be It as I See It (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  3. Hubbub, Whobub (Matchless)
  4. John Butcher & Gino Robair, Apophenia (Rastascan)
  5. Daunik Lazro-Benjamin Duboc-Didier Lasserre, Pourtant Les Cimes des Arbres (Dark Tree)
  6. Marc Ducret, Tower Vol. 2 (Ayler)
  7. MURAL, Live at the Rothko Chapel (Rothko Chapel Publications)
  8. Connie Crothers & Bill Payne, The Stone Set/Conversations (New Artists)
  9. Schlippenbach Trio, Bauhaus Dessau (Intakt)
  10. Jamaaladeen Tacuma, For the Love of Ornette (Jazzwerkstatt)

REISSUES

  1. FMP In Rückblick In Retrospect 1969-2010 (FMP)
  2. Steve Lacy, School Days (Emanem)
  3. Sun Ra, College Tour Vol. 1 The Complete Nothing Is . . . (ESP-Disk)

VOCAL

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LATIN

Jason Weiss (Improjazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kip Hanrahan, At Home in Anger (American Clavé/Yellow Bird)
  2. Claudia Quintet + 1, What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)
  3. Amir ElSaffar, Inana (Pi)
  4. Per Tjernberg, Music Is My Salvation (Country & Eastern)
  5. Ivo Perelman, The Hour of the Star (Leo)
  6. Dan Tepfer, Goldberg Variations/Variations (Sunnyside)
  7. Frank Carlberg, Uncivilized Ruminations (Red Piano)
  8. Sam Rivers, Trilogy (Mosaic Select)
  9. Rova Saxophone Quartet, Planetary (SoLyd)
  10. Ryoko Nuruki, Asian Bird (Integral)

REISSUES

  1. Sun Ra, Eternal Myth Revealed, Vol. 1 (Transparency)
  2. Steve Lacy, Solos Duos Trios (Soul Note)

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Michael J. West (Washington City Paper, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)
  2. Steve Coleman, The Mancy of Sound (Pi)
  3. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  4. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Samdhi (ACT)
  5. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  6. Eric Reed, Something Beautiful (WJ3)
  7. Brian Settles, Secret Handshake (Engine Studios)
  8. Gerald Clayton, Bond: The Paris Sessions (Emarcy)
  9. Stefon Harris-Christian Scott-David Sanchez, Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)
  10. Harris Eisenstadt, Canada Day II (Songlines)

REISSUES

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Kevin Whitehead (Fresh Air [NPR], Why Jazz?)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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LATIN

Josef Woodard (Downbeat, JazzTimes, Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  2. Muhal Richard Abrams, SoundDance (Pi)
  3. John Scofield, A Moment's Peace (Emarcy)
  4. Anthony Braxton, Trillium E (Braxton House)
  5. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  6. Gary Burton, Common Ground (Mack Avenue)
  7. Claudia Quintet + 1, What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)
  8. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
  9. Karrin Allyson, Round Midnight (Concord)
  10. Keith Jarrett, Rio (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Steve Lacy, Live at Jazzwerkstatt Peitz (Jazzwerkstatt)
  2. Art Blakey, Ugetsu: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at Birdland (Riverside)
  3. Jimmy Smith, Midnight Special (Blue Note)

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Ron Wynn (Tennessee Tribune, JazzTimes, Nashville Arts)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Murray, Plays Nat King Cole: En Español (Motéma)
  2. Roy Haynes, Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
  3. Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo, Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music)
  4. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  5. Stefon Harris-Christian Scott-David Sanchez, Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)
  6. Brad Mehldau, Live in Marciac (Nonesuch)
  7. Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic Project (Concord)
  8. Kurt Elling, The Gate (Concord)
  9. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  10. Tierney Sutton, American Road (BFM Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Ornette Coleman, Something Else!!! (Contemporary/Concord)
  3. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)

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LATIN

Scott Yanow (The Jazz Singers, Jazz on Record 1917-76)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lalo Schifrin, Jazz Meets the Symphony #7 (Aleph)
  2. Buell Neidlinger, Live at Ravenna Jazz '87 (K2B2)
  3. Chick Corea-Stanley Clarke-Lenny White, Forever (Concord)
  4. Eldar Djangirov, Three Stories (Masterworks Jazz)
  5. Freddie Hubbard, Pinnacle (Resonance)
  6. Roseanna Vitro, The Music of Randy Newman (Motéma)
  7. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, The Coimbra Concert (Clean Feed)
  8. Judy Wexler, Under a Painted Sky (Jazzed Media)
  9. Stephanie Trick, Something More (Victoria)
  10. Hiromi, The Voice (Telarc)

REISSUES

  1. Duke Ellington, The Complete 1932-1940 Brunswick, Columbia and Master Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Boswell Sisters, Collection (Storyville)
  3. Red Nichols, Vols 1-9 (Jazz Oracle)

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