The Critics

• Karl Ackermann: All About Jazz, Chicago Jazz Magazine
• Paul Acquaro: Free Jazz Collective, Jazzpodium
• Scott Albin: Amazon.com
• Hrayr Attarian: All About Jazz, Jazziz
• Chris Barton: Los Angeles Times, DownBeat
• Joe Bebco: The Syncopated Times
• Dan Bilawsky: All About Jazz, Dark Blue Notes, New York City Jazz Record
• Philip Booth: Jazziz, Jazzlands
• Mike Borella: Avant Music News
• Stuart Broomer: Free Jazz Collective, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, The Whole Note
• Bill Brownlee: Plastic Sax
• Dan Buskirk: WPRB [Princeton], Fun2Know Podcast
• Jeff Cebulski: New York City Jazz Record, Chicago Jazz
• John Chacona: All About Jazz, Postgenre Media, Let's Call This
• Gary Chapin: Free Jazz Collective
• J.D. Considine: DownBeat
• Mark Corroto: All About Jazz
• Michael Coyle: WRCU [Colgate University]
• David Cristol: Free Jazz Collective, Citizen Jazz
• Steve Dollar: freelance
• Laurence Donohue-Greene: The New York City Jazz Record
• Ken Dryden: New York City Jazz Record, Hot House, Timeless Jazz [WUTC-FM], All About Jazz
• Chuck Eddy: Eliminated for Reasons of Space, Spin, Napster
• 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]
• Ana Gavrilovska: Uncut, Maggot Brain, Aquarium Drunkard
• Richard Gehr: Relix, Maggot Brain, Bandcamp
• Kurt Gottschalk: New York City Jazz Record, The Wire, WKCR
• Stephen Graham: marlbank
• Jason Gross: Perfect Sound Forever
• James Hale: DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com
• Eyal Hareuveni: Free Jazz Blog, Salt Peanuts
• Chris Heim: KMUW-FM [Wichita, KS]
• Andrey Henkin: New York Times, WeJazz, JazzWise, Stereophile, The Brooklyn Rail, NPR; Jazz Passings
• Geoffrey Himes: Paste, Chamber Music
• Rob Hoff: WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], WETF [South Bend, IN], JazzErie
• Larry Hollis: Cadence
• Tom Hull: tomhull.com
• Jim Hynes: Glide, Making a Scene!
• Martin Johnson: Wall Street Journal, NPR, Bandcamp
• T.R. Johnson: WWOZ 98.7 FM [New Orleans]
• Sanford Josephson: Jersey Jazz Magazine
• Ammar Kalia: The Guardian, The Observer, Jazzwise, DownBeat
• Richard B. Kamins: Step Tempest, WESU-FM [Middletown CT]
• 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
• James Koblin: The Necessary Blues
• Elzy Kolb: freelance
• Will Layman: PopMatters
• Lance Liddle: Bebop Spoken Here
• Suzanne Lorge: DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record
• Brad Luen: Semipop Life
• Paul Medrano: Best of Jazz
• Allen Michie: The Arts Fuse
• Milo Miles: The Arts Fuse, Miles to Go
• Roz Milner: Dusted, Milner on Music
• 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: freelance
• Stuart Nicholson: Jazzwise
• Fotis Nikolakopoulos: Free Jazz Collective
• Tim Niland: freelance social media microblogger: X, Facebook
• Phil Overeem: Living to Listen
• Annie Parnell: VPM Music [NPR/Richmond, VA]
• Sergio Piccirilli: El Intruso
• Derk Richardson: The Absolute Sound, KPFA 94.1 FM [Berkeley]
• Britt Robson: Bandcamp, Minnpost
• Gene Seymour: The Nation, CNN.com
• Rob Shepherd: PostGenre Media
• Stewart Smith: The Wire, We Jazz, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus
• Jeffrey St. Clair: Counterpunch: Sound Grammar
• Mark Sullivan: All About Jazz
• Dave Sumner: Bandcamp, Bird Is the Worm
• Derek Taylor: Dusted
• Michael Toland: The Big Takeover, The Austin Chronicle
• Ludwig vanTrikt: Cadence
• Fabricio Vieira: FreeForm, FreeJazz
• Philip Watson: Irish Times, Irish Examiner
• Ken Waxman: Jazz Word
• Jason Weiss: The Wire, Le Ventre et l'Oreille
• Ken Weiss: Cadence
• Michael J. West: DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post
• Richard Williams: The Blue Moment
• Jerome Wilson: All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax

Total: 90 voters.