The Critics

• Karl Ackermann: All About Jazz
• Paul Acquaro: Free Jazz Collective, Jazz Podium
• Scott Albin: Amazon.com
• Ali Alizadeh [Sir Ali]: Jazzophone, Jazz Attitude [Frequence K/Jet FM, Nantes, France]
• Mischa Andriessen: Trouw [NL], Jazzmozaiek [BE]
• Hrayr Attarian: All About Jazz, Jazziz
• Chris Barton: Los Angeles Times, DownBeat
• Bill Beuttler: Emerson College, Boston Globe, DownBeat
• Larry Birnbaum: Stereophile
• Philip Booth: Jazziz, Relix, Culture Pop: Sound & Screen
• Stuart Broomer: Free Jazz Collective, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure
• Bill Brownlee: Plastic Sax
• Esteban Arizpe Castañeda: El Intruso
• Jeff Cebulski: Chicago Jazz, New York City Jazz Record
• Robert Christgau: And It Don't Stop
• Troy Collins: Point of Departure
• Thomas Conrad: Stereophile, All About Jazz
• J.D. Considine: DownBeat
• Mark Corroto: All About Jazz
• David Cristol: Free Jazz Collective
• Anthony Dean-Harris: KMHD [Portland], DownBeat
• Steve Dollar: freelance
• Laurence Donohue-Greene: The New York City Jazz Record
• Troy Dostert: All About Jazz, Free Jazz Collective
• Alain Drouot: Downbeat, Citizen Jazz
• Ken Dryden: New York City Jazz Record, Hot House, Timeless Jazz [WUTC-FM]
• Chuck Eddy: Eliminated for Reasons of Space, Napster, Spin
• John Ephland: DownBeat, All About Jazz
• Lee Rice Epstein: Free Jazz Collective, But does it swing?
• Steve Feeney: ArtsFuse, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
• Gary Finney: WQLN NPR [Eric, PA]
• Filipe Freitas: JazzTrail
• Pat Frisco: WHFR-FM [Dearborn, MI]
• Jon Garelick: Boston Globe, Arts Fuse, Jazziz, DownBeat
• Richard Gehr: Relix
• Brooks Geiken: Arts Fuse, Latinjazznet
• Mike Greenblatt: Goldmine, The Aquarian, Jersey Sound
• Jason Gross: Perfect Sound Forever, Rock & Roll Globe, New York City Jazz Record
• James Hale: DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com
• Eyal Hareuveni: Free Jazz Blog, Salt Peanuts
• Rob Hoff: WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], WETF [South Bend, IN], JazzErie
• Larry Hollis: Cadence
• Arlette Hovinga: That Jazz Girl PR
• Tom Hull: tomhull.com
• Jim Hynes: Glide, Making a Scene!
• Robert Iannapollo: New York City Jazz Record, Cadence
• Willard Jenkins: The Independent Ear, WPFW, DownBeat
• T.R. Johnson: WWOZ 98.7 FM [New Orleans]
• Sanford Josephson: Jersey Jazz Magazine
• Ammar Kalia: The Guardian, The Observer, DownBeat, Jazzwise
• Richard B. Kamins: Step Tempest
• George Kanzler: Hot House, New York City Jazz Record
• Fred Kaplan: Slate, Tracking Angle
• Glenn Kenny: Some Came Running, RogerEbert.com, New York Times, X, Bluesky
• Stuart Kremsky: Mr. Stu's Record Room
• David Kunian: Offbeat, New Orleans Jazz Museum, WWOZ-FM [New Orleans]
• Art Lange: freelance
• Martin Laurentius: Jazz Thing
• Will Layman: PopMatters
• Lance Liddle: Bebop Spoken Here
• Suzanne Lorge: DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record
• Brad Luen: Semipop Life
• Jim Macnie: DownBeat, Lament for a Straight Line
• Paul Medrano: Best of Jazz
• Allen Michie: The Arts Fuse
• Milo Miles: The Arts Fuse, Miles to Go
• Roz Milner: freelance
• Ralph A. Miriello: Notes on Jazz, Jazz Journalists Association
• Rick Mitchell: Jazz in the New Millennium [book/radio program]
• John Frederick Moore: Jazziz
• Greg Morton: GMort on Record
• Ivana Ng: DownBeat
• Stuart Nicholson: Jazzwise
• Fotis Nikolakopoulos: Free Jazz Collective
• Tim Niland: freelance, Blue Sky
• Dan Ouellette: DownBeat, Jazz & Beyond Intel, The Landfill Chronicles
• Phil Overeem: Living to Listen
• Sergio Piccirilli: El Intruso
• Steve Pick: Steve Pick's Writing Place
• Dan Polletta: JazzNEO [Ideastream Public Media]
• Derk Richardson: The Absolute Sound
• Marek Romański: Jazz Forum, Polish Radio RDC
• Gene Seymour: The Nation, CNN.com
• Adam Shatz: London Review of Books
• Rob Shepherd: PostGenre Media
• Hank Shteamer: New York Times, Pitchfork
• Jeffrey St. Clair: Counterpunch: Sound Grammar
• Sammy Stein: Free Jazz Collective, WeJazz, Platinum Mind, Something Else Reviews, Kind of Jazz
• Mark Stryker: Jazz From Detroit [University of Michigan Press]
• Jeff Tamarkin: Relix, Best Classic Bands, Mojo
• Michael Toland: The Big Takeover, The Austin Chronicle
• Michael Ullman: Fanfare, Arts Fuse
• Ken Waxman: Jazz Word
• Jason Weiss: The Wire, Le Ventre et l'Oreille, Listenings
• Ken Weiss: Cadence
• Michael J. West: DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post
• Richard Williams: The Blue Moment
• Jerome Wilson: All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax
• Josef Woodard: DownBeat, Jazziz, Los Angeles Times, Santa Barbara Independent, All About Jazz, JoeWoodard.com
• Ron Wynn: The Nashville Scene, The Tennessee Tribune, Giant Steps: Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society, Rock & Blues Muze

Total: 100 voters.