The Critics

The following critics have voted in this poll. Click on the name to see the critic's ballot. You may then follow the → link at the end of each line to get a list of all of the critics who voted for that album, and from there explore further ballots.

• Paul Acquaro: Free Jazz Collective, Jazz Podium
• Scott Albin: Amazon.com
• Ali Alizadeh [Sir Ali]: Jazzophone, Jazz Attitude [Frequence K/Jet FM, Nantes, France]
• Glenn Astarita: All About Jazz
• Hrayr Attarian: Jazziz, All About Jazz
• Angela Ballhorn: Jazzthetik, Jazz'N'More, Jazz-Fun.de
• Chris Barton: Los Angeles Times, DownBeat
• Joe Bebco: The Syncopated Times
• Bill Beuttler: Emerson College, Boston Globe
• Philip Booth: Jazziz, JazzTimes, Relix, Culture Pop
• Mike Borella: Avant Music News
• Marcela Breton: freelance
• 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
• Nuno Catarino: jazz.pt
• 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
• Troy Collins: Point of Departure
• J.D. Considine: DownBeat
• Mark Corroto: All About Jazz
• Michael Coyle: WRCU [Colgate University]
• David Cristol: Free Jazz Collective, Citizen Jazz
• Raul da Gama: JazzdaGama, Toronto Cultural Media (Latin Jazz Network, World Music Report, That Canadian Magazine), The WholeNote, Hot House Jazz
• Jos Demol: Jazz'halo
• Laurence Donohue-Greene: The New York City Jazz Record
• Ken Dryden: New York City Jazz Record, Hot House, Timeless Jazz [WUTC-FM]
• Chuck Eddy: Napster, Eliminated for Reasons of Space
• John Ephland: DownBeat, All About Jazz
• Lee Rice Epstein: Free Jazz Collective, But does it swing?
• Steve Feeney: ArtsFuse
• Gary Finney: WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], Jazz Buffalo
• Phil Freeman: Burning Ambulance, DownBeat, Stereogum, The Wire
• Filipe Freitas: JazzTrail
• Pat Frisco: WHFR-FM [Dearborn, MI]
• Jon Garelick: Arts Fuse, Boston Globe
• Ana Gavrilovska: Uncut, Maggot Brain, Aquarium Drunkard
• Richard Gehr: Relix
• Brooks Geiken: Arts Fuse, LatinJazzNet
• Kurt Gottschalk: New York City Jazz Record, The Wire, WKCR
• David A. Graham: The Atlantic
• Mike Greenblatt: The Jersey Sound, Goldmine, The Aquarian
• George Grella: The Brooklyn Rail, Financial Times, Bandcamp, New York City Jazz Record, VAN, Kill Yr Idols; Bitches Brew 33⅓
• Jason Gross: Perfect Sound Forever, Rock & Roll Globe, New York City Jazz Record
• James Hale: DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com
• Eyal Hareuveni: Free Jazz Collective, Salt Peanuts, Percorsi Musicali
• Andrey Henkin: JazzTimes, JazzWise, Stereophile, WeJazz, Squid's Ear, Point of Departure, QwestTV, New York Times; Jazz Passings
• Geoffrey Himes: JazzTimes, Chamber Music
• Rob Hoff: WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], WETF [South Bend, IN], JazzErie
• Larry Hollis: Cadence
• C. Andrew Hovan: All About Jazz, DownBeat
• Tom Hull: Tom Hull - On the Web
• Jim Hynes: Glide, PostGenre, Making a Scene!
• Martin Johnson: NPR Fresh Air, Wall Street Journal
• Matthieu Jouan: Citizen Jazz
• Richard B. Kamins: Step Tempest
• George Kanzler: Hot House, New York City Jazz Record
• Yoshi Kato: DownBeat, San Francisco Classical Voice
• Glenn Kenny: Some Came Running, RogerEbert.com, New York Times
• James Koblin: The Necessary Blues, WVKR 91.3FM [Vassar College]
• Elzy Kolb: freelance
• David Kunian: Offbeat, WWOZ-FM [New Orleans], New Orleans Jazz Museum
• Martin Laurentius: Jazz Thing
• Will Layman: PopMatters
• Devin Leonard: Bloomberg News
• Lance Liddle: Bebop Spoken Here
• Mark Lomanno: The Rhythm of Study, University of Miami
• Suzanne Lorge: DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record
• Brad Luen: Semipop Life
• Phillip Lutz: DownBeat
• Paul Medrano: Best of Jazz
• Allen Michie: The Arts Fuse
• Bill Milkowski: DownBeat, Jazziz, JazzTimes, Guitar Player, Absolute Sound, Substack
• Ralph A. Miriello: Notes on Jazz
• 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
• Tim Niland: Bluesky
• Piotr Orlov: Dada Strain, ArtForum, freelance
• Phil Overeem: Living to Listen
• Ted Panken: DownBeat, Jazziz, JazzTimes
• Terry Perkins: DownBeat
• Lawrence Peryer: Spotlight On [podcast], The Tonearm
• Sergio Piccirilli: El Intruso
• Steve Pick: Steve Pick's Writing Place
• Derk Richardson: The Absolute Sound
• Britt Robson: Minnpost, Bandcamp
• Fiona Ross: Women in Jazz Media, Jazz in Europe
• Akira Saito: JazzTokyo, Jaz.in, Music Magazine, Taiwan Beats, Jazz Right Now
• Bret Saunders: Denver Post, KBCO-FM [Denver]
• Martin Schray: Free Jazz Collective
• Gene Seymour: The Nation, CNN.com
• John Sharpe: The New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, All About Jazz, Jazz Podium
• Adam Shatz: London Review of Books
• Rob Shepherd: PostGenre Media
• Stewart Smith: The Wire, We Jazz, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus
• Jeffrey St. Clair: Counterpunch: Sound Grammar
• Sammy Stein: Free Jazz Collective, Something Else, Platinum Mind, Kind of Jazz
• Mark Sullivan: All About Jazz
• Dave Sumner: Bandcamp, Bird Is the Worm
• Derek Taylor: Dusted
• Michael Ullman: Fanfare, Arts Fuse
• Ludwig vanTrikt: Cadence
• Fabricio Vieira: FreeForm, FreeJazz
• Philip Watson: Irish Times, Irish Examiner, The Wire
• Ken Waxman: Jazz Word
• Jason Weiss: The Wire, Le Ventre et l'Oreille
• Michael J. West: DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post
• Jerome Wilson: All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax
• Ron Wynn: The Nashville Scene, Tennessee Tribune, Rock & Blues Muze
• Kazue Yokoi: JazzTokyo

Total: 113 voters.