13th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2018

Ballot 2018

Steve Greenlee (Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tyler Higgins, Blue Mood (Shhpuma)
  2. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (Pi)
  3. Schnellertollermeier, Rights (Cuneiform -17)
  4. Henry Threadgill, Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus (Pi)
  5. William Parker, Voices Fall From the Sky (AUM Fidelity)
  6. The Mattson 2, A Love Supreme (Spiritual Pajamas)
  7. Elephant9, Greatest Show on Earth (Rune Grammofon)
  8. Thumbscrew, Ours/Theirs (Cuneiform)
  9. Jeremy Pelt, Noir En Rouge: Live in Paris (HighNote)
  10. This Is It!, 1538 (Libra)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Way Out West [Deluxe Edition] (Craft)
  2. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette, After the Fall (ECM)
  3. Sun Ra, Astro Black (Modern Harmonic)

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN

Note: Thumbscrew vote only specified Theirs.