The Critics

• Karl Ackermann: All About Jazz
• Paul Acquaro: Free Jazz Collective, Jazz Podium
• Scott Albin: Amazon.com
• Shannon Ali (Shannon J. Effinger): The Guardian UK, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Pitchfork, Jazziz, NPR Music
• Ali Alizadeh [Sir Ali]: Jazzophone, Jazz Attitude [Frequence K/Jet FM, Nantes, France]
• Clifford Allen: "So, What Do You Think?" (concert series), Singularity Codex: Matthew Shipp
• Mischa Andriessen: Trouw [NL], Jazzmozaiek [BE]
• Larry Appelbaum: DownBeat, WPFW-FM
• Hrayr Attarian: All About Jazz, Jazziz
• Angela Ballhorn: Jazzthetik.de, jazznmore.ch, jazz-fun.de, gitarrebass.de, jazzineurope.mfmmedia.nl, akustik-gitarre.com
• Dave Barber: WYSO [Yellow Springs, OH]
• Franpi Barriaux: Citizen Jazz
• Chris Barton: Los Angeles Times, DownBeat
• Joe Bebco: The Syncopated Times
• Enrico Bettinello: Giornale della Musica [IT]
• Bill Beuttler: Emerson College, Boston Globe, DownBeat
• Dan Bilawsky: All About Jazz, Dark Blue Notes, New York City Jazz Record, Music & Arts
• Larry Birnbaum: Stereophile
• Larry Blumenfeld: Wall Street Journal
• Philip Booth: Jazziz, Relix, Culture Pop: Sound & Screen
• Mike Borella: Avant Music News
• Stuart Broomer: Free Jazz Collective, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure
• Bill Brownlee: Plastic Sax
• Dan Buskirk: WPRB [Princeton], Fun2Know Podcast
• Esteban Arizpe Castañeda: El Intruso
• Nuno Catarino: jazz.pt
• Jeff Cebulski: Chicago Jazz, New York City Jazz Record
• John Chacona: All About Jazz, Let's Call This
• Gary Chapin: Free Jazz Collective
• Nate Chinen: WRTI, NPR Music, The Gig
• Robert Christgau: And It Don't Stop
• Brad Cohan: Bandcamp Daily, New York City Jazz Record
• Troy Collins: Point of Departure
• Thomas Conrad: Stereophile, All About Jazz
• J.D. Considine: DownBeat
• Mark Corroto: All About Jazz
• Michael Coyle: WRCU [Colgate University]
• David Cristol: Free Jazz Collective
• Raul da Gama: Global Jazz Media, That Canadian Magazine, Latin Jazz Network, JazzdaGama, The WholeNote, Hot House Jazz
• Francis Davis: emeritus
• Anthony Dean-Harris: KMHD [Portland], DownBeat
• Jos Demol: Jazz'halo
• 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]
• Phil Freeman: Burning Ambulance, Stereogum, The Wire, DownBeat
• Filipe Freitas: JazzTrail
• Will Friedwald: Wall Street Journal, New York Sun, KSDS Jazz Radio [San Diego]
• Pat Frisco: WHFR-FM [Dearborn, MI]
• Jon Garelick: Boston Globe, Arts Fuse, Jazziz, DownBeat
• Ana Gavrilovska: Uncut, Maggot Brain, Aquarium Drunkard
• Richard Gehr: Relix
• Brooks Geiken: Arts Fuse, Latinjazznet
• Stef Gijssels: Free Jazz Collective
• Kurt Gottschalk: The Wire, New York City Jazz Record, WKCR
• David A. Graham: The Atlantic
• Ludovico Granvassu: All About Jazz/All About Jazz Italia, Radio Free Brooklyn: Mondo Jazz
• Mike Greenblatt: Goldmine, The Aquarian, Jersey Sound
• George Grella: The Brooklyn Rail, New York City Jazz Record, The Wire, Red Hook Star-Review, Financial Times
• Jason Gross: Perfect Sound Forever, Rock & Roll Globe, New York City Jazz Record
• Scott Gutterman: The Brooklyn Rail
• James Hale: DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com
• Eyal Hareuveni: Free Jazz Blog, Salt Peanuts
• Chris Heim: KMUW-FM [Wichita, KS], Global Village
• Tad Hendrickson: freelance
• Andrey Henkin: New York Times, Stereophile, WeJazz, JazzWise, The Brooklyn Rail, NPR; Jazz Passings
• Will Hermes: New Music + Old Music, Rolling Stone, NPR, New York Times, Pitchfork, Uncut [UK]
• Geoffrey Himes: Paste, Chamber Music
• Rob Hoff: WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], WETF [South Bend, IN], JazzErie
• Larry Hollis: Cadence
• C. Andrew Hovan: All About Jazz, DownBeat
• Arlette Hovinga: That Jazz Girl PR
• Tom Hull: tomhull.com
• Peter Hum: The Ottawa Citizen
• Jim Hynes: Glide, Making a Scene!
• Robert Iannapollo: New York City Jazz Record, Cadence
• Willard Jenkins: The Independent Ear, WPFW, DownBeat
• Martin Johnson: Wall Street Journal, NPR, 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
• Yoshi Kato: DownBeat, San Francisco Classical Voice, San Francisco Chronicle
• Glenn Kenny: Some Came Running, RogerEbert.com, New York Times, X, Bluesky
• Matthias Kirsch: Gina Loves Jazz
• Brian Kiwanuka: PostGenre
• James Koblin: The Necessary Blues, WVKR [Vassar College]
• Elzy Kolb: freelance
• Stuart Kremsky: Mr. Stu's Record Room
• David Kunian: Offbeat, New Orleans Jazz Museum, WWOZ-FM [New Orleans]
• Art Lange: freelance
• Josh Langhoff: Wrigley Field organist
• Martin Laurentius: Jazz Thing
• Will Layman: PopMatters
• Devin Leonard: Bloomberg Businessweek
• Lance Liddle: Bebop Spoken Here
• Mark Lomanno: The Rhythm of Study
• Suzanne Lorge: DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record
• Brad Luen: Semipop Life
• Phillip Lutz: DownBeat
• Kevin Lynch: The Shepherd Express, Culture Currents (Vernaculars Speak)
• Jim Macnie: DownBeat, Lament for a Straight Line
• Peter Margasak: Nowhere Street, DownBeat, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily
• Paul Medrano: Best of Jazz
• Allen Michie: The Arts Fuse
• Milo Miles: The Arts Fuse, Miles to Go
• Bill Milkowski: DownBeat, Absolute Sound, Jazziz, Jazzthing [Germany], The Milkman's Musings
• Roz Milner: freelance
• Ralph A. Miriello: Notes on Jazz, Jazz Journalists Association
• Rick Mitchell: Jazz in the New Millennium [book/radio program]
• Chris Monsen: Musikkmagasinet/Klassekampen, Jazznytt, Chris Monsen's Listening Booth
• 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
• Annie Parnell: VPM Music/WCVE [NPR/Richmond, VA], Paste, Flood
• Tomás Peña: JazzDeLaPena
• Terry Perkins: DownBeat
• Lawrence Peryer: Spotlight On [podcast], The Tonearm, freelance
• Sergio Piccirilli: El Intruso
• Steve Pick: Steve Pick's Writing Place
• Dan Polletta: JazzNEO [Ideastream Public Media]
• Peter Quinn: Jazzwise, The Arts Desk, Songlines
• Derk Richardson: The Absolute Sound
• Britt Robson: Minnpost, Bandcamp
• Marek Romański: Jazz Forum, Polish Radio RDC
• Akira Saito: JazzTokyo, Jaz.in, Music Magazine, Taiwan Beats, Jazz Right Now
• Bret Saunders: Denver Post, KBCO-FM [Denver]
• Sarah Schmidt: Jazz Director, WRFL-FM [Lexington, KY]
• Gene Seymour: The Nation, CNN.com
• Mike Shanley: Shanley on Music, New York City Jazz Record
• John Sharpe: The New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, All About Jazz
• Adam Shatz: London Review of Books
• Rob Shepherd: PostGenre Media
• Hank Shteamer: New York Times, Pitchfork, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches
• Slim: WRCU: Slim's Spins and The Slim & Him Show
• Stewart Smith: freelance: The Wire, The Quietus, Bandcamp Daily, We Jazz, The Guardian
• Jeffrey St. Clair: Counterpunch: Sound Grammar
• Thomas Staudter: The (Croton) Gazette, DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record, The Recorder
• Sammy Stein: Free Jazz Collective, WeJazz, Platinum Mind, Something Else Reviews, Kind of Jazz
• Mark Stryker: Jazz From Detroit [University of Michigan Press]
• Mark Sullivan: All About Jazz
• Dave Sumner: Bandcamp, Bird Is the Worm
• John Szwed: Wire, Gagosian Quarterly, Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies
• Jeff Tamarkin: Relix, Best Classic Bands, Mojo
• Derek Taylor: Dusted
• Sidney Terano: The Mortifying Ideal
• Neil Tesser: Jazziz, KSDS-FM
• Michael Toland: The Big Takeover, The Austin Chronicle
• Michael Ullman: Fanfare, Arts Fuse
• Ludwig vanTrikt: Cadence
• George Varga: San Diego Union-Tribune/Tribune News Service
• Fabricio Vieira: FreeForm, FreeJazz
• Philip Watson: Irish Times, Irish Examiner
• Ken Waxman: Jazz Word
• Bob Weinberg: Jazziz
• 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, Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society, Rock & Blues Muse
• Kazue Yokoi: JazzTokyo

Total: 177 voters.

Critics who voted in 2023 but didn't vote in 2024 (16):

David R. Adler, Shaun Brady, Dave Cantor, Katchie Cartwright, John Corbett, Andrew Gilbert, Stephen Graham, Mark Holston, Howard Mandel, Ken Micallef, Allen Morrison, Ysi Ortega, Lloyd Sachs, Rich Scheinin, Seth Colter Walls, Scott Yanow.

Critics who voted in 2024 and had voted in previous polls but not in 2023 (9):

Karl Ackermann, Clifford Allen, Will Friedwald, Mike Greenblatt, Will Hermes, T.R. Johnson, Brian Kiwanuka, Kevin Lynch, Thomas Staudter.

Critics who voted for the first time in 2024 (25, including 3 who voted in 2024 mid-year poll, designated *):

Ali Alizadeh [Sir Ali], Mischa Andriessen, Angela Ballhorn, Dave Barber, Franpi Barriaux, Enrico Bettinello, Nuno Catarino, Robert Christgau, Jos Demol, Brooks Geiken, Stef Gijssels, C. Andrew Hovan, Arlette Hovinga, Matthias Kirsch, Martin Laurentius, Greg Morton*, Tomás Peña, Lawrence Peryer, Steve Pick, Marek Romański, Akira Saito, Jeffrey St. Clair*, Sidney Terano, Fabricio Vieira, Philip Watson*.

We don't keep precise tabs on this, but believe that 15 (or so) new voters are non-American, vs. 1 departed voter and 0 returned voters. The approx. number of non-Americans among returning voters is 15-20?