| 11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017 |
Ballot 2017
Tom Moon (NPR All Things Considered, NPR Music)
NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)
- Diego Barber, One Minute Later (Sunnyside)
- Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, Body and Shadow (Blue Note)
- Fred Hersch, Open Book (Palmetto)
- Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
- Ahmad Jamal, Marseille (Jazz Village/PIAS)
- Ron Miles, I Am a Man (Yellowbird)
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue)
- Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, The Centennial Trilogy (Ropeadope)
- Nate Smith, Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere (Ropeadope)
- Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)
- Bill Evans, Another Time: The Hilversun Concert (Resonance)
- Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
- Jaco Pastorius, Truth, Liberty & Soul (Resonance)
VOCAL
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue)
DEBUT
- Nate Smith, Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere (Ropeadope)
LATIN
- Eliane Elias, Dance of Time (Concord)
Note: Vote for Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Diaspora counted for The Centennial Trilogy.