11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017

Ballot 2017

George Grella (Brooklyn Rail, The Wire, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  2. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  3. Sam Newsome & Jean-Michel Pilc, Magic Circle (Some New Music)
  4. Colin Vallon Trio, Danse (ECM)
  5. Nicholas Payton, Afro-Caribbean Mixtape (Paytone)
  6. Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet, December Avenue (ECM)
  7. Harriet Tubman, Araminta (Sunnyside)
  8. Lisa Mezzacappa, Glorious Ravage (New World)
  9. Roots Magic, Last Kind Words (Clean Feed)
  10. Greg Saunier-Mary Halvorson-Ron Miles, New American Songbook Vol I (Sound American)

REISSUES

  1. Sun Ra, Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection (Strut)
  2. Billy Bang, Distinction Without a Difference (Corbett vs Dempsey)
  3. Jaco Pastorius, Truth, Liberty & Soul (Resonance)

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