10th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2015
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Martin Longley (The Guardian, Jazzwise, DwonBeat, All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Møster!, When You Cut Into the Present (Hubro)
  2. Shatner's Bassoon, The Self-Titled Album Shansa Barsnaan (Wasp Millionaire)
  3. Paal Nilssen-Love, Erta Ale (PNL -14)
  4. Schneider Kacirek, Shadows Documents (Bureau B)
  5. Susana Santos Silva & Kaja Draksler, This Love (Clean Feed)
  6. Gard Nilssen, Acoustic Unity (Clean Feed)
  7. De Beren Gieren, One Mirrors Many (Clean Feed)
  8. Ballister, Worse for the Wear (Aerophonic)
  9. John Russell, With . . . (Emanem)
  10. Jens Düppe, Anima (Double Moon)

REISSUES

  1. Ornette Coleman, Beauty Is a Rare Thing (Atlantic)
  2. Jon Hassell & Brian Eno, Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (Glitterbeat)
  3. Sun Ra, To Those of Earth . . . and Other Worlds (Strut)

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Suzanne Lorge (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ran Blake, Ghost Tones (A-Side)
  2. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis, Live in Cuba (Blue Engine)
  3. Cecile McLorin Salvant, For One to Love (Mack Avenue)
  4. Chick Corea & Bela Fleck, Two (Concord Jazz)
  5. Danilo Perez-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Children of the Night (Mack Avenue)
  6. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  7. Cassandra Wilson, Coming Forth by Day (Legacy)
  8. Terri Lyne Carrington, The Music Project: Love & Soul (Concord)
  9. Joshua Redman & Bad Plus, Joshua Redman & Bad Plus (Nonesuch)
  10. Charenee Wade, Offering: The Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson (Motéma)

REISSUES

  1. Ornette Coleman, New York Is Now! (Blue Note)
  2. Keith Jarrett-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  3. Bobby McFerrin, Spontaneous Inventions (Blue Note)

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Phillip Lutz (DownBeat, The New York Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dave Liebman, The Puzzle (Whaling City Sound)
  2. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  3. Fred Hersch, Solo (Palmetto)
  4. John Scofield, Past Present (Impulse!)
  5. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  6. Danilo Perez-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Children of the Night (Mack Avenue)
  7. Sam Newsome, Straight Horn of Africa (self-released -14)
  8. John Patitucci, Brooklyn (Three Faces)
  9. Orrin Evans, The Evolution of Oneself (Smoke Sessions)
  10. Mark Helias, The Signal Maker (Intakt)

REISSUES

  1. John Abercrombie, The First Quartet (ECM)
  2. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. various, French New Wave: Original Jazz on Film Recordings, 1957-62 (Jazz on Film)

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Jim Macnie (DownBeat, Village Voice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mike Reed, A New Kind of Dance (482 Music)
  2. Tim Berne, You've Been Watching Me (ECM)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  4. Chris Lightcap, Epicenter (Clean Feed)
  5. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  6. John Hebert, Rambling Confessions (Sunnyside)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  8. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  9. Gary Peacock, Now This (ECM)
  10. Michael Bates, Northern Spy (Stereoscopic)

REISSUES

  1. Cecil Taylor, The Complete in Berlin '88 (Destination Out)
  2. various, Nu Yorica! (Soul Jazz)
  3. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Howard Mandel (DownBeat, The Wire, National Public Radio)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  2. Myra Melford, Snowy Egret (Enja/Yellowbird)
  3. Steve Coleman, Synovial Joints (Pi)
  4. Mary Halvorson, Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  5. Harris Eisenstadt, Canada Day IV (Songlines)
  6. Dave Bryant, The Garden of Equilibria (CD Baby)
  7. Nicole Mitchell-Tomeka Reid-Mike Reed, Artifacts (482 Music)
  8. Clarence Penn, Monk: The Lost Files (Origin -14)
  9. PRISM Quartet, Heritage/Evolution Volume 1 (Innova)
  10. Roscoe Mitchell, Celebrating Fred Anderson (Nessa)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. various, Creative Music Studio, Archive Selections Vol. 2 (Innova)
  3. Junior Wells, Southside Blues Jam (Delmark -14)

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Peter Margasak (Chicago Reader, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  2. JD Allen, Graffiti (Savant)
  3. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  4. Liberty Ellman, Radiate (Pi)
  5. Josh Berman, A Dance and a Hop (Delmark)
  6. Mary Halvorson, Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  7. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  8. Chris Lightcap, Epicenter (Clean Feed)
  9. Amir ElSaffar, Crisis (Pi)
  10. Eve Risser, Des Pas Sur La Neige (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Bengt Nordström-Sven-Åke Johansson-Alexander von Schlippenbach, Stockholm Connection (Umlaut)
  3. Staffan Harde, Staffan Harde (Corbett vs. Dempsey)

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Matt Marshall (All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  2. David Torn, Only Sky (ECM)
  3. James Falzone & the Renga Ensemble, The Room Is (Allos Documents)
  4. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Stretch Music (Ropeadope)
  5. Atomic, Lucidity (Jazzland)
  6. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Mauch Chunk (Hot Cup)
  7. Ran Blake, Ghost Tones (A-Side)
  8. Chris Potter, Imaginary Cities (ECM)
  9. Ben Goldberg, Orphic Machine (BAG)
  10. Rez Abbasi, Intents and Purposes (Enja)

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Lee Mergner (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas, Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival (Blue Note)
  2. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  3. John Scofield, Past Present (Impulse!)
  4. Christian McBride, Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)
  5. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  6. Joshua Redman & Bad Plus, Joshua Redman & Bad Plus (Nonesuch)
  7. Anat Cohen, Luminosa (Anzic)
  8. Danilo Perez-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Children of the Night (Mack Avenue)
  9. Julian Lage, World's Fair (Modern Lore)
  10. Charles Lloyd, Wild Man Dance (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Thelonious Monk, The Complete Riverside Recordings (Riverside)
  3. Bill Evans, The Complete Fantasy Recordings (Concord)

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Milo Miles (NPR, Boston Arts Fuse, Miles to Go)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  2. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  3. Tim Berne, You've Been Watching Me (ECM)
  4. Ran Blake, Ghost Tones (A-Side)
  5. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  6. Mary Halvorson, Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  7. Roscoe Mitchell, Celebrating Fred Anderson (Nessa)
  8. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  9. Matthew Stevens, Woodwork (Whirlwind)
  10. Jacob Garchik, Ye Olde (Yestereve)

REISSUES

  1. John Abercrombie, The First Quartet (ECM)
  2. Sonny Sharrock, Ask The Ages (M.O.D. Technologies)
  3. Ran Blake, The Complete Remastered Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (CAM Jazz)

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Bill Milkowski (Downbeat, Jazziz, Absolute Sound, Concertvault.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  2. Dave Douglas, Brazen Heart (Greenleaf)
  3. Myra Melford, Snowy Egret (Enja/Yellowbird)
  4. John Hebert, Rambling Confessions (Sunnyside)
  5. Petros Klampanis, Minor Dispute (Inner Circle)
  6. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  7. John Patitucci, Brooklyn (Three Faces)
  8. John Scofield, Past Present (Impulse!)
  9. Mary Halvorson, Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  10. Joel Harrison, Spirit House (Whirlwind)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)
  3. Weather Report, The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981 (Legacy)

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Ralph A. Miriello (Notes on Jazz, Huffington Post, Hot House)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chris Dingman, The Subliminal and the Sublime (Inner Arts Initiative)
  2. JD Allen, Graffiti (Savant)
  3. Charlie Hunter, Let the Bells Ring On (Charlie Hunter Music)
  4. José James, Yesterday I Had the Blues (Blue Note)
  5. John Fedchock, Like It Is (Mama)
  6. Kenny Werner, The Melody (Pirouet)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  8. Orrin Evans, The Evolution of Oneself (Smoke Sessions)
  9. Dave Stryker, Messin' With Mister T (Strikezone)
  10. Manuel Valera, Urban Landscape (Destiny)

REISSUES

  1. John Abercrombie, The First Quartet (ECM)
  2. Wes Montgomery, In the Beginning (Resonance)
  3. Dizzy Gillespie, Live at Ronnie Scott's Vol. 1-4 (Consolidated Artists Productions)

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Chris Monsen (Musikkmagasinet, Jazznytt, Perfect Sounds)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Irene Schweizer & Han Bennink, Welcome Back (Intakt)
  2. Kirk Knuffke, Arms & Hands (Royal Potato Family)
  3. Chris Lightcap, Epicenter (Clean Feed)
  4. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  5. Max Johnson, Something Familiar (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  6. Darius Jones, Le Bebe de Brigitte (AUM Fidelity)
  7. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  8. Mike Reed, A New Kind of Dance (482 Music)
  9. Gebhard Ullmann, Hat and Shoes (Between the Lines)
  10. James Brandon Lewis, Days of FreeMan (OKeh)

REISSUES

  1. Sonny Sharrock, Ask The Ages (M.O.D. Technologies)
  2. John Carter/Bobby Bradford, Self Determination Music (Ace)
  3. Detail, First Detail (Rune Grammofon)

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Tom Moon (NPR All Things Considered, NPR Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joshua Redman & Bad Plus, Joshua Redman & Bad Plus (Nonesuch)
  2. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  3. Brad Mehldau, 10 Years Solo Live (Nonesuch)
  4. Julian Lage, World's Fair (Modern Lore)
  5. Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Tokyo Adagio (Impulse!)
  6. Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap, The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern (Columbia)
  7. Partikel, String Theory (Whirlwind)
  8. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  9. St. Germain, St. Germain (Nonesuch)
  10. Kenny Wheeler, Songs for Quintet (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Barry Harris, Plays Tadd Dameron (Xanadu)
  3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)

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John Frederick Moore (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  2. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  3. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  4. Liberty Ellman, Radiate (Pi)
  5. Ran Blake, Ghost Tones (A-Side)
  6. Charenee Wade, Offering: The Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson (Motéma)
  7. Tomeka Reid, Quartet (Thirsty Ear)
  8. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  9. JD Allen, Graffiti (Savant)
  10. Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Tokyo Adagio (Impulse!)

REISSUES

  1. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)
  3. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Dan Morgenstern (Jersey Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Michael Blake, Tiddy Boom (Sunnyside -14)
  2. Christian McBride, Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)
  3. Kirk Knuffke, Arms & Hands (Royal Potato Family)
  4. Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project, Lines of Color (Blue Note/ArtistShare)
  5. Lorraine Feather, Flirting With Disaster (Jazzed Media)
  6. Wycliffe Gordon & DiMartino-Osland Jazz Orchestra, Somebody New (CD Baby)
  7. Joey Alexander, My Favorite Things (Motéma)
  8. Russell Malone, Love Looks Good on You (HighNote)
  9. Ran Blake, Ghost Tones (A-Side)

REISSUES

  1. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Louis Armstrong, Complete Newport (Mosaic)

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Allen Morrison (DownBeat, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tony Bennett & Bill Charlap, The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern (Columbia)
  2. Rez Abbasi, Intents and Purposes (Enja)
  3. London, Meader, Pramuk & Ross, The Royal Bopsters Project (Motema)
  4. Dave Stryker, Messin' With Mister T (Strikezone)
  5. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  6. Chris Dingman, The Subliminal and the Sublime (Inner Arts Initiative)
  7. Chris McNulty, Eternal (Palmetto)
  8. Nilson Matta, East Side Rio Drive (Krian Music Group)
  9. Aaron Diehl, Space Time Continuum (Mack Avenue)
  10. Karrin Allyson, Many a New Day (Motema)

REISSUES

  1. Tony Bennett & Bill Evans, The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings (Fantasy)
  2. Wes Montgomery, In the Beginning (Resonance)
  3. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Brian Morton (Jazz Journal, The Wire, The Tablet, Sunday Herald, Independent, TLS (London), Sunday Herald (Glasgow), The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10 editions 1992-2012; ongoing under new publishing arrangement))

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matthew Shipp, To Duke (RogueArt)
  2. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  3. Kenny Wheeler, Songs for Quintet (ECM)
  4. Samuel Blaser, Spring Rain (Whirlwind)
  5. Katie Bull, All Hot Bodies Radiate (Ashokan)
  6. Chico Freeman & Heiri Kanzig, The Arrival (Intakt)
  7. John Hollenbeck, Songs We Like a Lot (Sunnyside)
  8. Lotte Anker, What River Is This (ILK -14)
  9. Julian Arguelles, Tetra (Whirlwind)
  10. Uwe Oberg, Work (Leo)

REISSUES

  1. Evan Parker, Monoceros (Psi)
  2. Sonny Criss, Complete Imperial Sessions (Phono)
  3. Johnny Coles, The Warm Sound (Phono)

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Russ Musto (The New York City Jazz Record, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Michael G. Nastos (Cadence, Hot House, WDEE-TV.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  2. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  3. Erik Friedlander, Oscalypso (Skipstone)
  4. Gilad Atzmon, The Whistle Blower (Fanfare)
  5. Pete McCann, Range (Whirlwind )
  6. Kirk Knuffke, Arms & Hands (Royal Potato Family)
  7. Valery Ponomarev, Our Father Who Art Blakey (Zoho)
  8. Heads of State, Search for Peace (Smoke Sessions)
  9. Dave Stryker, Messin' With Mister T (Strikezone)
  10. Jakob Anderskov, Habitable Exomusics Vol. I-II-III: Kinetics (The Path) / Statics (The Map) / Dymanics (The Terrain) (ILK)

REISSUES

  1. various, Creative Music Studio, Archive Selections Vol. 2 (Innova)
  2. Sonny Simmons, Reincarnation (Arhoolie)
  3. Billie Holiday, Banned From New York City (Uptown)

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Stuart Nicholson (Jazzwise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Wild Man Dance (Blue Note)
  2. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  3. Verneri Pohjola, Bullhorn (Edition)
  4. Kari Ikonen, Beauteous Tales (Ozella)
  5. Tore Brunborg, Slow Snow (ACT)
  6. Wolfgang Hafner, Kind of Cool (ACT)
  7. Branford Marsalis, In My Solitude (OKeh -14)
  8. Vincent Peirani, Living Being (ACT)
  9. Drifter, Flow (Edition)
  10. Cassandra Wilson, Coming Forth by Day (Legacy)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Oscar Peterson, Exclusively for My Friends (MPS)
  3. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)

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Tim Niland (Music & More)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chris Lightcap, Epicenter (Clean Feed)
  2. William Parker, Great Spirit (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Mauch Chunk (Hot Cup)
  4. Matthew Shipp, The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear)
  5. Paul Dunmall & Tony Bianco, Homage to Coltrane (Slam)
  6. Mario Pavone, Blue Dialect (Clean Feed)
  7. The Thing, Shake (Thing)
  8. John Zorn, Inferno (Tzadik)
  9. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  10. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas, Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. David S. Ware, Birth of a Being (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Sonny Rollins w. Don Cherry, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (Solar)
  3. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)

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