10th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2015
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Dan Ouellette (DownBeat, ZEALnyc.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Christian Vuust & Aaron Parks, Storytelling (Aero)
  2. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  3. Ou, Scrambled! (Spoot)
  4. Charles Lloyd, Wild Man Dance (Blue Note)
  5. Luciana Souza, Speaking in Tongues (Sunnyside)
  6. Chris Potter, Imaginary Cities (ECM)
  7. Cassandra Wilson, Coming Forth by Day (Legacy)
  8. Chick Corea & Bela Fleck, Two (Concord Jazz)
  9. Miho Hazama, Time River (Sunnyside)
  10. José James, Yesterday I Had the Blues (Blue Note)

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Thierry Peremarti (Jazz News [France])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  2. José James, Yesterday I Had the Blues (Blue Note)
  3. Kevin Hays, New Day (Sunnyside)
  4. Oded Lev-Ari, Threading (Anzic)
  5. Devin Gray, RelativE ResonancE (Skirl)
  6. Chris Dingman, The Subliminal and the Sublime (Inner Arts Initiative)
  7. Ben Goldberg, Orphic Machine (BAG)
  8. Isaac Darche, Team & Variations (Challenge)
  9. Melody Gardot, Currency of Man (The Artist's Cut) (Universal)
  10. AMP Trio, M(Y)ourworld (self-released)

REISSUES

  1. Weather Report, The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981 (Legacy)
  2. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Wes Montgomery, In the Beginning (Resonance)

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Sergio Piccirilli (El Instruso)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Coleman, Synovial Joints (Pi)
  2. Matt Mitchell, Vista Accumulation (Pi)
  3. Kris Davis, Save Your Breath (Clean Feed)
  4. Tim Berne, You've Been Watching Me (ECM)
  5. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  6. Myra Melford, Snowy Egret (Enja/Yellowbird)
  7. Rodrigo Amado, This Is Our Language (Not Two)
  8. Bathysphere, Bathysphere (Driff)
  9. Mary Halvorson, Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  10. Vox Arcana, Caro's Song (Relay)

REISSUES

  1. Last Exit, Iron Path (ESP-Disk)
  2. Sonny Rollins w. Don Cherry, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (Solar)
  3. Sonny Simmons, Reincarnation (Arhoolie)

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Peter Quinn (Jazzwise, The Arts Desk)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  2. John Hollenbeck, Songs We Like a Lot (Sunnyside)
  3. Charles Lloyd, Wild Man Dance (Blue Note)
  4. Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project, Lines of Color (Blue Note/ArtistShare)
  5. Andy Sheppard, Surrounded by Sea (ECM)
  6. Jeremy Pelt, Tales, Musings and Other Reveries (HighNote)
  7. Michael Gibbs & NDR Big Band, Play a Bill Frisell Set List (Cuneiform)
  8. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  9. Kenny Wheeler, Songs for Quintet (ECM)
  10. Ahmad Jamal, Live in Marciac (Jazz Village)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, 'Round Midnight: Complete Blue Note Singles (Impulse!)
  2. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)

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Doug Ramsey (Rifftides, Wall Street Journal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tom Harrell, First Impressions (HighNote)
  2. Charles Lloyd, Wild Man Dance (Blue Note)
  3. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  4. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  5. Gary McFarland Legacy Ensemble, Circulation: The Music of Gary McFarland (Planet Arts)
  6. Antonio Sanchez, Three Times Three (CAM Jazz)
  7. Carla Bley-Steve Swallow-Andy Sheppard, Trios (ECM)
  8. Katie Theroux, Introducing Katie Thiroux (BassKat)
  9. Bill Kirchner, An Evening of Indigos (Jazzheads)
  10. Matthew Shipp, To Duke (RogueArt)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)
  2. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Lars Gullin, Portrait of the Legendary Baritone Saxophonist (Fresh Sound)

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Simon Rentner (WBGO's The Checkout)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Hiatus Kaiyote, Choose Your Weapon (Flying Buddha)
  2. Thundercat, The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam (Brainfeeder)
  3. Kneebody & Deadelus, Kneedelus (Brainfeeder)
  4. Cecile McLorin Salvant, For One to Love (Mack Avenue)
  5. Fabiano do Nascimento, Dança dos Tempos (Now Again)
  6. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  7. Joshua Redman & Bad Plus, Joshua Redman & Bad Plus (Nonesuch)
  8. Ben Williams, Coming of Age (Concord)
  9. St. Germain, St. Germain (Nonesuch)
  10. Chris Dingman, The Subliminal and the Sublime (Inner Arts Initiative)

REISSUES

  1. Wes Montgomery, In the Beginning (Resonance)
  2. Kenny Barron, At the Piano (Xanadu/Elemental)
  3. Art Pepper, Live at Fat Tuesday's (Elemental)

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Derk Richardson (The Absolute Sound, KPFA 94.1 FM, AFAR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Myra Melford, Snowy Egret (Enja/Yellowbird)
  2. Satoko Fujii, Ichigo Ichie (Libra)
  3. Scott Amendola, Fade to Orange (Sazi)
  4. Mary Halvorson, Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  5. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  6. Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg, Celestial Weather (TUM)
  7. Henry Kaiser & Ray Russell, The Celestial Squid (Cuneiform)
  8. Matthew Shipp, To Duke (RogueArt)
  9. Keith Jarrett, Creation (ECM)
  10. John Schott, Actual Trio (Tzadik)

REISSUES

  1. Lindsay Cooper, Rarities (ReR Megacorp)
  2. Charlie Parker, The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948 (Savoy Jazz)
  3. various, The Complete Dial Modern Jazz Sessions (Mosaic)

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Joel Roberts (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chris Lightcap, Epicenter (Clean Feed)
  2. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  3. Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project, Lines of Color (Blue Note/ArtistShare)
  4. Orrin Evans, The Evolution of Oneself (Smoke Sessions)
  5. Noah Preminger, Pivot: Live at the 55 Bar (Noah Preminger)
  6. Gary Peacock, Now This (ECM)
  7. Fred Hersch, Solo (Palmetto)
  8. Steve Wilson, Live in New York: The Vanguard Sessions (Random Act)
  9. Robert Glasper, Covered (Blue Note)
  10. Harold Mabern, Afro Blue (Smoke Sessions)

REISSUES

  1. Red Garland, Swingin' on the Korner: Live at Keystone Korner (Elemental Music)

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Chris Robinson (OutsideInsideOut)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Alex Rodriguez (NPR Music/Papeles de Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  2. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  3. Josh Nelson, Exploring Mars (Origin)
  4. Amir ElSaffar, Crisis (Pi)
  5. John Hollenbeck, Songs We Like a Lot (Sunnyside)
  6. Steve Coleman, Synovial Joints (Pi)
  7. JD Allen, Graffiti (Savant)
  8. Samuel Blaser, Spring Rain (Whirlwind)
  9. Sebastián Jordán, Trapecista (Discos Pendente)
  10. Jure Pukl, Life Sound Pictures (Fresh Sound New Talent -14)

REISSUES

  1. Sonny Rollins w. Don Cherry, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (Solar)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)
  3. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)

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Bret Saunders (Denver Post, KBCO-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tomeka Reid, Quartet (Thirsty Ear)
  2. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  3. Barry Altschul, Tales of the Unforseen (TUM)
  4. Irene Schweizer & Han Bennink, Welcome Back (Intakt)
  5. Liberty Ellman, Radiate (Pi)
  6. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  7. Kris Davis, Save Your Breath (Clean Feed)
  8. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  9. Dave Douglas, High Risk (Greenleaf)
  10. Matthew Shipp, The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear)

REISSUES

  1. Cecil Taylor, The Complete in Berlin '88 (Destination Out)
  2. various, The Complete Bee Hive Sessions (Mosaic)
  3. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)

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Rich Scheinin (San Jose Mercury News)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas, Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival (Blue Note)
  2. Joshua Redman & Bad Plus, Joshua Redman & Bad Plus (Nonesuch)
  3. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  4. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  5. Abdullah Ibrahim, The Song Is My Story (Sunnyside)
  6. Jen Shyu, Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi)
  7. Dave Douglas, Brazen Heart (Greenleaf)
  8. Myra Melford, Snowy Egret (Enja/Yellowbird)
  9. Aaron Diehl, Space Time Continuum (Mack Avenue)
  10. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)

REISSUES

  1. Keith Jarrett-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Hamburg '72 (ECM)
  2. Weather Report, The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981 (Legacy)
  3. Barry Harris, Plays Tadd Dameron (Xanadu)

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Gene Seymour

NEW RELEASES

  1. Cecile McLorin Salvant, For One to Love (Mack Avenue)
  2. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  3. Maria Schneider, The Thompson Fields (ArtistShare)
  4. Stanley Cowell, Juneteenth (Vision Fugitive)
  5. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  6. Steve Coleman, Synovial Joints (Pi)
  7. Ryan Truesdell's Gil Evans Project, Lines of Color (Blue Note/ArtistShare)
  8. Matthew Shipp, The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Rez Abbasi, Intents and Purposes (Enja)
  10. Heads of State, Search for Peace (Smoke Sessions)

REISSUES

  1. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)

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Mike Shanley (JazzTimes, Shanley on Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mike Reed, A New Kind of Dance (482 Music)
  2. Tim Berne, You've Been Watching Me (ECM)
  3. Jon Lundbom, Jeremiah (Hot Cup)
  4. Rob Mazurek, Galactic Parables Vol. 1 (Cuneiform)
  5. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  6. Michael Bisio, Accortet (Relative Pitch)
  7. Andrew Drury, Content Provider (Soup and Sounds)
  8. JD Allen, Graffiti (Savant)
  9. Wayne Horvitz, Some Places Are Forever Afternoon (Songlines)
  10. Matthew Shipp, To Duke (RogueArt)

REISSUES

  1. Wes Montgomery, In the Beginning (Resonance)
  2. Lennie Tristano, Chicago April 1951 (Uptown -14)
  3. Red Garland, Swingin' on the Korner: Live at Keystone Korner (Elemental Music)

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John Sharpe (The New York City Jazz Record, All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Martin Kuchen, Melted Snow (NoBusiness)
  2. Mats Gustafsson, Knockin' (Not Two)
  3. Matthew Shipp, The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear)
  4. Ingrid Laubrock, Roulette of the Cradle (Intakt)
  5. Universal Indians & Joe McPhee, Skullduggery (Clean Feed)
  6. Evan Parker & Sylvie Courvoisier, Either Or And (Relative Pitch)
  7. Casa, Futuro (Clean Feed)
  8. Decoy with Joe McPhee, Spontaneous Combustion (Otoroku)
  9. Satoko Fujii, Yamiyo Ni Karasu (Libra)
  10. Ivo Perelman, Book of Sound (Leo)

REISSUES

  1. Frank Lowe, Out Loud (Triple Point)
  2. Ted Daniel, Innerconnection (NoBusiness)
  3. Free Jazz Unit Wiesbaden, Frictions Now (NoBusiness)

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Adam Shatz (London Review of Books, New York Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charlie Haden & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Tokyo Adagio (Impulse!)
  2. Mary Halvorson, Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  3. Steve Coleman, Synovial Joints (Pi)
  4. Joshua Redman & Bad Plus, Joshua Redman & Bad Plus (Nonesuch)
  5. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  6. Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)
  7. Tomeka Reid, Quartet (Thirsty Ear)
  8. Matthew Shipp, The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  10. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Bobby Bradford & John Carter, No U-Turn: Live in Pasadena, 1975 (Dark Tree)

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Garrett Shelton (Apple Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kamasi Washington, The Epic (Brainfeeder)
  2. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Stretch Music (Ropeadope)
  3. Chris Lightcap, Epicenter (Clean Feed)
  4. Amir ElSaffar, Crisis (Pi)
  5. Cecile McLorin Salvant, For One to Love (Mack Avenue)
  6. Greg Foat, The Dancers at the Edge of Time (Jazzman)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  8. Albert "Tootie" Heath, Philadelphia Beat (Sunnyside)
  9. Makaya McCraven, In the Moment (International Anthem)
  10. Gilad Hekselman, Homes (Jazz Village)

REISSUES

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Hank Shteamer (Time Out New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Milford Graves & Bill Laswell, Space/Time Redemption (TUM)
  2. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  3. Henry Threadgill, In for a Penny, In for a Pound (Pi)
  4. Mary Halvorson, Meltframe (Firehouse 12)
  5. Joshua Redman & Bad Plus, Joshua Redman & Bad Plus (Nonesuch)
  6. Stanley Cowell, Juneteenth (Vision Fugitive)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith & John Lindberg, Celestial Weather (TUM)
  8. Kirk Knuffke, Arms & Hands (Royal Potato Family)
  9. Jon Irabagon, Behind the Sky (Irrabagast)
  10. John Zorn, Inferno (Tzadik)

REISSUES

  1. Sonny Rollins w. Don Cherry, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (Solar)
  2. Weather Report, The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981 (Legacy)
  3. Miles Davis, At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Slim [Kara Rusch] (Slim's Spins, The Slim & Him Show)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Yngvil Vatn Guttu, On the Crosswalk (Kachemak)
  2. Ochion Jewell, Volk (Mythology)
  3. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Mauch Chunk (Hot Cup)
  4. Wolff and Clark Expedition, 2 (Random Act)
  5. Simon Frick, Solo (Boomslang)
  6. Kevin Eubanks & Stanley Jordan, Duets (Mack Ave)
  7. Mikko Innanen, Song For a New Decade (TUM)
  8. Marco Eneidi, Streamin' 4/Panta Rei (ForTune)
  9. La Lucha, Standards Not Standards (Blue Line)
  10. Liberation Music Collective, Silo XXI (Ad Astrum)

REISSUES

  1. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Mike Osborne, Dawn (Cuneiform)
  3. various, The Complete Bee Hive Sessions (Mosaic)

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Jon Solomon (Westword [Denver])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd, Wild Man Dance (Blue Note)
  2. Gary Peacock, Now This (ECM)
  3. Ben Goldberg, Orphic Machine (BAG)
  4. Chris Potter, Imaginary Cities (ECM)
  5. Joshua Redman & Bad Plus, Joshua Redman & Bad Plus (Nonesuch)
  6. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  7. Stefano Battaglia, In the Morning (ECM)
  8. Matthew Shipp, The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Amir ElSaffar, Crisis (Pi)
  10. John Patitucci, Brooklyn (Three Faces)

REISSUES

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters (Impulse!)
  2. John Abercrombie, The First Quartet (ECM)
  3. Wes Montgomery, In the Beginning (Resonance)

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Chip Stern (Radio Free Chip, Positive Feedback)

NEW RELEASES

  1. John Scofield, Past Present (Impulse!)
  2. Erik Friedlander, Oscalypso (Skipstone)
  3. JD Allen, Graffiti (Savant)
  4. Vijay Iyer, Break Stuff (ECM)
  5. Matthew Shipp, The Conduct of Jazz (Thirsty Ear)
  6. Steve Coleman, Synovial Joints (Pi)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Bird Calls (ACT)
  8. Jack DeJohnette, Made in Chicago (ECM)
  9. Chick Corea & Bela Fleck, Two (Concord Jazz)
  10. Michael Gibbs & NDR Big Band, Play a Bill Frisell Set List (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Erroll Garner, The Complete Concert by the Sea (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Wes Montgomery, In the Beginning (Resonance)
  3. Sonny Rollins w. Don Cherry, Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962 (Solar)

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