11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017

Ballot 2017

Francis Davis (Village Voice, Temple University)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kirk Knuffke, Cherryco (SteepleChase)
  2. Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan, Small Town (ECM)
  3. Roscoe Mitchell, Bells for the South Side (ECM)
  4. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Morphogenesis (Pi)
  5. Matthew Shipp Trio, Piano Song (Thirsty Ear )
  6. Dave Douglas, Little Giant Still Life (Greenleaf)
  7. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  8. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, The Music of John Lewis (Blue Engine)
  9. Ron Miles, I Am a Man (Yellowbird)
  10. Ingrid Laubrock, Serpentines (Intakt -16)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  2. Alice Coltrane, World Spirituality Classics 1: The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda (Luaka Bop)
  3. Oscar Pettiford Nonet/Big Band/Sextet, New York City 1955-1958 (Uptown Jazz)

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