9th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2014

Ballot 2014

Michael J. West (Washington City Paper, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note)
  2. Christine Jensen, Habitat (Justin Time -13)
  3. Otis Brown III, The Thought of You (Blue Note)
  4. Diego Barber & Craig Taborn, Tales (Sunnyside)
  5. Orrin Evans, Liberation Blues (Smoke Session)
  6. Reginald Cyntje, Elements of Life (self-released)
  7. Billy Hart, One Is the Other (ECM)
  8. David Weiss, When Words Fail (Motéma)
  9. Fabian Almazan, Rhizome (Blue Note/ArtistShare)
  10. Antonio Adolfo, Rio, Choro, Jazz (AAM)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Columbia and RCA Victor Live Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Miles Davis, Miles at the Fillmore [The Bootleg Series Vol. 3] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Frank Lowe, Out Loud (Triple Point)

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