11th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2017
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Jeff Tamarkin (JazzTimes, Relix, Mojo)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Cameron Graves, Planetary Prince (Mack Avenue)
  2. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue)
  3. Jazzmeia Horn, A Social Call (Prestige)
  4. Hiromi & Edmar Castaneda, Live in Montreal (Telarc)
  5. Jack DeJohnette-Larry Grenadier-John Medeski-John Scofield, Hudson (Motéma)
  6. Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan, Small Town (ECM)
  7. Ambrose Akinmusire, A Rift In Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
  8. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Caipi (Razdz/Heartcore)
  9. Ron Miles, I Am a Man (Yellowbird)
  10. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, The Centennial Trilogy (Ropeadope)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Evans, Another Time: The Hilversun Concert (Resonance)
  2. Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly Trio, Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966) (Resonance)
  3. Count Basie Orchestra Featuring Lester Young, The Savory Collection, Volume 2: Jumpin' at the Woodside (National Jazz Museum in Harlem/Apple)

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Derek Taylor (Dusted)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, Solo: Reflections and Meditations on Monk (TUM)
  2. Roscoe Mitchell, Bells for the South Side (ECM)
  3. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die (International Anthem)
  4. Tony Malaby-Mat Maneri-Daniel Levin, New Artifacts (Clean Feed)
  5. Irene Schweizer & Joey Baron, Live! (Intakt)
  6. Jason Stein, Lucille! (Delmark)
  7. Kirk Knuffke, Cherryco (SteepleChase)
  8. Peter Brötzmann & Heather Leigh, Sex Tape (Trost)
  9. Joe McPhee-Damon Smith-Alvin Fielder, Six Situations (Not Two)
  10. Nick Mazzarella & Tomeka Reid, Signaling (Nessa)

REISSUES

  1. Lucky Thompson, Complete Parisian Small Group Sessions 1956-1959 (Fresh Sound)
  2. Steve Lacy, Free for a Minute (Disposability & Sortie) (Emanem)
  3. Ornette Coleman, Ornette at 12/Crisis (Real Gone)

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Neil Tesser (Jazziz, WFMT Jazz Network)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  2. Eddie Palmieri, Sabiduria (Ropeadope)
  3. John Beasley, MONK'estra, Vol. 2 (Mack Avenue)
  4. Matthew Shipp Trio, Piano Song (Thirsty Ear )
  5. Kirk Knuffke, Cherryco (SteepleChase)
  6. Miguel Zenón, Tipico (Miel)
  7. Chris Potter, The Dreamer is the Dream (ECM)
  8. Satoko Fujii, Invisible Hand (Cortez Sound)
  9. Gerald Clayton, Tributary Tales (Motéma)
  10. Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge, On the Wind (MAMA)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Evans, Another Time: The Hilversun Concert (Resonance)
  2. Mark Murphy, Wild and Free (HighNote)
  3. Roscoe Mitchell, Duets With Anthony Braxton (Sackville/Delmark)

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Michael Ullman (Fanfare, Arts Fuse)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matt Wilson, Matt Wilson's Honey and Salt (Palmetto)
  2. Jane Ira Bloom, Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson (Outline)
  3. Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan, Small Town (ECM)
  4. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Morphogenesis (Pi)
  5. Bill Charlap, Uptown Downtown (Impulse)
  6. Christian McBride Big Band, Bringin' It (Mack Avenue)
  7. Anat Cohen Tentet, Happy Song (Anzic)
  8. Jack DeJohnette-Larry Grenadier-John Medeski-John Scofield, Hudson (Motéma)
  9. Rudresh Mahanthappa & the Indo-Pak Coalition, Agrima (Mahanthappa)
  10. Ambrose Akinmusire, A Rift In Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. various, Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49 (Mosaic)
  2. Louis Armstrong, Standard Oil Sessions (Dot Time)
  3. Dick Hyman, Solo at the Sacramento Jazz Festival 1983-1988 (Arbors)

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Ludwig Van Trikt (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. George Colligan, More Powerful (Whirlwind)
  2. Tiziano Tononi and Southbound, Trouble No More . . . All Men Are Brothers (Long Song)
  3. Ken Schaphorst Big Band, How to Say Goodbye (JCA -16)
  4. Philipp Gropper's Philm, Sun Ship (WhyPlayJazz)
  5. Jass, Mix of Sun and Clouds (Yolk Music -16)
  6. Brian McCarthy, The Better Angels of Our Nature (Truth Revolution)
  7. China Moses, Nightentales (MPS)
  8. Jason Rigby, One (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  9. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Morphogenesis (Pi)
  10. Ambrose Akinmusire, A Rift In Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)

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Seth Colter Walls (New York Times, Pitchfork)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Roscoe Mitchell, Discussions (Wide Hive)
  2. Craig Taborn, Daylight Ghosts (ECM)
  3. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue)
  4. Oliver Lake & FLUX Quartet, Right Up On (Passin' Thru)
  5. Jason Moran and the Bandwagon, Thanksgiving at the Vanguard (Yes)
  6. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  7. Kate Gentile, Mannequins (Skirl)
  8. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  9. Terrace Martin Presents the Pollyseeds, Sounds of Crenshaw, Vol. 1 (Sounds of Crenshaw/Ropeadope)
  10. Stephan Crump-Ingrid Laubrock-Cory Smythe, Planktonic Finales (Intakt)

REISSUES

  1. Ornette Coleman & Various Artists, Celebrate Ornette (Song X -16)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  3. Phill Musra Group, Creator Spaces (Now Again)

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Ken Waxman (Jazz Word)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sophie Agnel/Daunik Lazro, Marguerite D'Or Pâle (Fou -16)
  2. Jason Kao Hwang, Sing House (Euonymous)
  3. Alexander Hawkins, Unit[e] (AH)
  4. The Heliosonic Tone-Tette, Heliosonic Toneways Vol. 1 (ScienSonic Laboratories)
  5. Tiziano Tononi & Daniele Cavallanti Nexus, Experience Nexus! (Rudi)
  6. Arashi, Semikujira (Trost -16)
  7. Harris Eisenstadt, Recent Developments (Songlines)
  8. Kasper Tom & Rudi Mahall, One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure (Barefoot)
  9. Agustí Fernández & Rafal Mazur, Ziran (Not Two)
  10. Rova Saxophone Quartet/Kyle Bruckmann/Henry Kaiser, Steve Lacy's Saxophone Special Revisited (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Rüdiger Carl, Inc. King Alcohol (New Version) (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  2. Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Karyobin (Emanem)
  3. Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly Trio, Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966) (Resonance)

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Bob Weinberg (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ernest Dawkins New Horizons Ensemble, Transient Takes (self-released)
  2. JD Allen, Radio Flyer (Savant)
  3. Eric Revis, Sing Me Some Cry (Clean Feed)
  4. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  5. Irene Schweizer & Joey Baron, Live! (Intakt)
  6. Taylor Ho Bynum, Enter the Plustet (Firehouse 12 -16)
  7. Ellery Eskelin/Christian Weber/Michael Griener, Sensations of Tone (Intakt)
  8. Avishai Cohen, Cross My Palm With Silver (ECM)
  9. Marta Sánchez 5tet, Danza Imposible (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  10. François Bourassa Quartet, Number 9 (Effendi)

REISSUES

  1. Joseph Bowie & Oliver Lake, Live at Space 1976 (Sackville)
  2. Roscoe Mitchell, Duets With Anthony Braxton (Sackville/Delmark)
  3. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)

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Jason Weiss (The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse, Morphogenesis (Pi)
  2. Jacques Thollot, Thollot in Extenso (Nato)
  3. Lisa Mezzacappa, Glorious Ravage (New World)
  4. Hans Hassler, Wie Die Zeit Hinter Mir Her (Intakt)
  5. The Microscopic Septet, Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me (Cuneiform)
  6. Rova Saxophone Quartet/Kyle Bruckmann/Henry Kaiser, Steve Lacy's Saxophone Special Revisited (Clean Feed)
  7. Burton Greene, Compendium (Improvising Beings)
  8. Musicianer, Slow Learner (Iluso)
  9. Rulemares Atractor, Extraño (FMR)
  10. Tomas Fujiwara, Triple Double (Firehouse 12)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  2. Albert Ayler, Copenhagen Live 1964 (Hatology)

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Ken Weiss (Cadence, Jazz Inside)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rudresh Mahanthappa & the Indo-Pak Coalition, Agrima (Mahanthappa)
  2. Miles Okazaki, Trickster (Pi)
  3. The Vampires, The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke (Earshift Music)
  4. Irene Schweizer & Joey Baron, Live! (Intakt)
  5. Satoko Fujii Quartet, Live at Jazz Room Cortez (Cortez Sound)
  6. Nick Finzer, Hear & Now (OutsideIn Music)
  7. Bobby Zankel & the Wonderful Sound 6, Celebrating William Parker @ 65 (Not Two)
  8. Brian Landrus Orchestra, Generations (BlueLand)
  9. Beholder, Claim No Native Land (self-produced)
  10. Trio Heinz Herbert, The Willisau Concert (Intakt)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)

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Jon Wertheim (Rehearsing The Blues)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Paint (Hot Cup)
  2. Django Bates' Belovèd, The Study of Touch (ECM)
  3. Jihye Lee Orchestra, April (self-released)
  4. Mark Masters, Blue Skylight (Capri)
  5. Borderlands Trio, Asteroideia (Intakt)
  6. Lee Konitz, Frescalalto (Impulse!)
  7. Aaron Parks, Find the Way (ECM)
  8. Ron Miles, I Am a Man (Yellowbird)
  9. Gerald Cannon, Combinations (Woodneck)
  10. Yoko Miwa Trio, Pathways (Ocean Blue Tear Music)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  2. various, The Savory Collection Vol. 3: Honeysuckle Rose ()
  3. Bill Evans, Another Time: The Hilversun Concert (Resonance)

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Michael J. West (JazzTimes, Washington Post, Washington City Paper)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran, Bangs (Yes)
  2. Harriet Tubman, Araminta (Sunnyside)
  3. Anouar Brahem-Dave Holland-Jack DeJohnette-Django Bates, Blue Maqams (ECM)
  4. Charles Lloyd New Quartet, Passin' Thru (Blue Note)
  5. Howard Johnson & Gravity, Testimony (Tuscarora)
  6. Ron Miles, I Am a Man (Yellowbird)
  7. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  8. Gregory Lewis Organ Monk, The Breathe Suite (self-released)
  9. Billy Childs, Rebirth (Mack Avenue)
  10. Kamasi Washington, Harmony of Difference (Young Turks)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk, Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (Sam/Saga)
  2. Kirk Lightsey & Harold Danko, Shorter by Two (Sunnyside)

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Kevin Whitehead (Fresh Air [NPR])

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz, Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brian Landrus Orchestra, Generations (BlueLand)
  2. Dominique Eade & Ran Blake, Town and Country (Sunnyside)
  3. Matt Wilson, Matt Wilson's Honey and Salt (Palmetto)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith, Najwa (TUM)
  5. Joe Rosenberg Ensemble, Tomorrow Never Knows (Quark)
  6. Jane Ira Bloom, Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson (Outline)
  7. Harris Eisenstadt, Recent Developments (Songlines)
  8. Ingrid & Christine Jensen, Infinitude (Whirlwind -16)
  9. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  10. Simon Millerd, Lessons and Fairytales (Songlines)

REISSUES

  1. Paul Bley, The Paul Bley Synthesizer Show (Bamboo)
  2. Ornette Coleman, Ornette at 12/Crisis (Real Gone)
  3. Ella Fitzgerald, 'S Wonderful (Nederland Jazz Archif)

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Josef Woodard (DownBeat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Django Bates' Belovèd, The Study of Touch (ECM)
  2. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  3. Craig Taborn, Daylight Ghosts (ECM)
  4. Ambrose Akinmusire, A Rift In Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
  5. Jack DeJohnette-Larry Grenadier-John Medeski-John Scofield, Hudson (Motéma)
  6. Dave Holland-Chris Potter-Lionel Loueke-Eric Harland, Aziza (Dare2 -16)
  7. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  8. Kris Davis, Duopoly (Pyroclastic -16)
  9. Linda May Han Oh, Walk Against Wind (Biophilia)
  10. Django Bates, Saluting Sgt. Pepper (Edition)

REISSUES

  1. Keith Jarrett, A Multitude of Angels (ECM)
  2. Lee Konitz-Kenny Wheeler, Olden Times: The House of Saints (Double Moon)
  3. NRBQ, High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective (Omnivore)

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Ron Wynn (Nashville Scene, Tennessee Jazz & Blues, Tennessee Tribune, East Nashvillian, WFSK FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Far From Over (ECM)
  2. Ahmad Jamal, Marseille (Jazz Village/PIAS)
  3. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue)
  4. Charles Lloyd New Quartet, Passin' Thru (Blue Note)
  5. Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE)
  6. Tyshawn Sorey, Verisimilitude (Pi)
  7. Rahsaan Barber, The Music in The Night (Jazz Music City)
  8. Eliane Elias, Dance of Time (Concord)
  9. Jazzmeia Horn, A Social Call (Prestige)
  10. Louis Hayes, Serenade for Horace (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane, Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings (Craft)
  2. David Liebman & Joe Lovano, Compassion: The Music of John Coltrane (Resonance)
  3. Lester Bowie, Numbers 1 and 2 (Nessa)

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Scott Yanow (DownBeat,Jazziz, New York City Jazz Record, Los Angeles Jazz Scene)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Eddie Palmieri, Sabiduria (Ropeadope)
  2. Richie Cole, Latin Lover (RCP)
  3. Dick Hyman, Solo at the Sacramento Jazz Festival 1983-1988 (Arbors)
  4. Heads of State, Four in One (Smoke Sessions)
  5. Eric Hofbauer Quintet, Reminiscing in Tempo (Creative Nation Music)
  6. The Cookers, The Call of the Wild and Peaceful Heart (Smoke Sessions)
  7. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Dreams and Daggers (Mack Avenue)
  8. Stephane Wrembel, The Django Experiment I (Water Is Life)
  9. Gary Meek, Originals (self-produced)
  10. Emmett Cohen, Masters Legacy Series Vol. 1 (Cellar Live)

REISSUES

  1. Art Pepper & Warne Marsh, Unreleased Art, Vol. 9 (Widow's Taste)
  2. Hank Mobley, To One So Sweet Stay That Way (Nederlands Jazz Archief)
  3. various, West Coast Jazz 1922-27 (Jazz Oracle)

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