The Critics

The following critics have voted in this poll this year. More have been invited, and when they submit ballots they will be added here.

• Paul Acquaro: Free Jazz Collective
• Scott Albin: Amazon.com
• Ali Alizadeh [Sir Ali]: Frequence K [Nantes, France], Jazzophone
• Rick Anderson: CD Hotlist: New Releases for Libraries
• Bridget Arnwine: Beets & Bebop Media, All About Jazz
• Hrayr Attarian: All About Jazz, Jazziz, Free Jazz Collective
• Angela Ballhorn: Jazzthetik, Jazz'N'More, Jazz-Fun.de, Jazz in Europe
• Chris Barton: Los Angeles Times
• Joe Bebco: The Syncopated Times
• Larry Birnbaum: Stereophile
• Jason Bivins: Dusted, Point of Departure
• Larry Blood: Out Front, Outback on KZSC-FM
• Richard Blute: Free Jazz Collective
• Philip Booth: JazzTimes, Culture Pop: Sound & Screen
• 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
• Pete Butchers: Jazz Today . . . . .
• Nuno Catarino: jazz.pt
• Jeff Cebulski: New York City Jazz Record, Chicago Jazz
• John Chacona: All About Jazz, Postgenre Media, Let's Call This
• Robert Christgau: And It Don't Stop
• Brad Cohan: New York City Jazz Record, Treble, Bandcamp Daily
• Troy Collins: Point of Departure
• J.D. Considine: DownBeat
• Mark Corroto: All About Jazz
• Michael Coyle: WRCU [Colgate University]
• David Cristol: Free Jazz Collective, New York City Jazz Record
• Matthew Crook: Dismal Niche Arts, Extended Play Festival and the Left Field Series
• Steve Dollar: Flamingo
• Laurence Donohue-Greene: The New York City Jazz Record
• Ken Dryden: Hot House, New York City Jazz Record, Timeless Jazz [WUTC-FM]
• Chuck Eddy: Poplar Mucilage, Eliminated for Reasons of Space
• John Ephland: DownBeat, All About Jazz
• Lee Rice Epstein: Free Jazz Collective, But Does It Swing?
• Steve Erickson: ArtsFuse, Slant, Gay City News
• Gonçalo Falcao: jazz.pt
• Steve Feeney: ArtsFuse, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
• Gary Finney: WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], Jazz Buffalo
• Phil Freeman: Stereogum, The Wire, DownBeat, Burning Ambulance
• Filipe Freitas: JazzTrail
• Pat Frisco: WHFR-FM [Dearborn, MI]
• Matteo Gabutti: 4'33" Association
• Jon Garelick: Arts Fuse, Boston Globe, Jazziz
• Ana Gavrilovska: Uncut, Maggot Brain, Aquarium Drunkard
• Richard Gehr: Relix
• Brooks Geiken: Arts Fuse, LatinJazzNet, Substack
• Kurt Gottschalk: New York City Jazz Record, JazzTimes, The Wire, WKCR
• David A. Graham: The Atlantic
• Ludovico Granvassu: All About Jazz/All About Jazz Italia, Radio Free Brooklyn: Mondo Jazz
• Mike Greenblatt: , The Aquarian, Goldmine
• James Hale: DownBeat, SoundStageNetwork.com
• Andrew Hamlin: The Tone Arm, JazzTimes
• Eyal Hareuveni: Free Jazz Collective, Salt Peanuts, Percorsi Musicali
• George Harris: Jazz Weekly
• Ron Hart: Rock and Roll Globe, Spin, Billboard, DownBeat
• Andrey Henkin: JazzTimes, Stereophile, WeJazz, Jazz Passings
• Geoffrey Himes: JazzTimes, Chamber Music, Hard Rain & Pink Cadillacs
• Rob Hoff: WQLN [Erie, PA], WETF [South Bend, IN], JazzErie
• C. Andrew Hovan: All About Jazz, DownBeat
• Tom Hull: Tom Hull - On the Web, Notes on Everyday Life
• Jim Hynes: Glide, PostGenre
• Martin Johnson: NPR Fresh Air, Wall Street Journal
• Sanford Josephson: Jersey Jazz Magazine
• Matthieu Jouan: Citizen Jazz
• Richard B. Kamins: Step Tempest Steps Out
• George Kanzler: Hot House, New York City Jazz Record
• Glenn Kenny: RogerEbert.com, New York Times
• James Koblin: The Necessary Blues, WVKR 91.3FM [Vassar College]
• Elzy Kolb: freelance
• David Kunian: New Orleans Jazz Museum, Louisana State Museum, WWOZ-FM [New Orleans]
• Josh Langhoff: Wrigley Field organist
• Tim Larsen: Jazz Views
• Will Layman: PopMatters, Big Butter & Egg Man
• Devin Leonard: Bloomberg Businessweek
• Lance Liddle: Bebop Spoken Here
• Mark Lomanno: The Rhythm of Study
• Suzanne Lorge: DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record
• Marcello Lorrai: Radio Popolare, Il Manifesto
• Brad Luen: Semipop Life
• Phillip Lutz: DownBeat
• Ferruccio Martinotti: La Stampa, Free Jazz Collective
• Paul Medrano: Best of Jazz
• Allen Michie: The Arts Fuse
• Bill Milkowski: DownBeat, Absolute Sound, JazzTimes, Jazzthing [Germany], Jazzwise [UK], Musings on Music by The Milkman [also on 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: Substack, GMOrt On RecOrd
• Ivana Ng: DownBeat
• Fotis Nikolakopoulos: Free Jazz Collective
• Tim Niland: Bluesky
• Phil Overeem: Living to Listen, Good to My Earhole, The Phil Overeem (Failed) Farewell to Teaching Tour
• Ted Panken: DownBeat, JazzTimes, Today Is the Question, Round 2
• Annie Parnell: Nashville Scene, FLOOD
• Russell Perry: Jazz at 100 Now!, WTJU [Charlottesville, VA]
• Lawrence Peryer: The Tonearm
• Sergio Piccirilli: El Intruso
• Steve Pick: Steve Pick's Writing Place
• Derk Richardson: The Absolute Sound
• Britt Robson: Minnpost, Bandcamp
• Akira Saito: JazzTokyo, Jaz.in, Music Magazine, Jazz Right Now
• Bret Saunders: Denver Post
• Martin Schray: Free Jazz Collective
• Gene Seymour: The Nation, BookForum
• Adam Shatz: London Review of Books
• Rob Shepherd: PostGenre Media
• João Esteves da Silva: jazz.pt, Free Jazz Collective, Bandcamp Daily
• Steve Smith: Night After Night
• Stewart Smith: The Wire, We Jazz, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus
• Jeffrey St. Clair: Counterpunch: Sound Grammar
• Michael Steinman: Jazz Lives
• Ariella Stok: New York City Jazz Record
• Mimmo Stolfi: Off Topic, Roma Report, Succede Oggi
• Mark Sullivan: All About Jazz
• Dave Sumner: Bandcamp
• Derek Taylor: Dusted
• George Varga: San Diego Union-Tribune, Tribune News Service, JazzTimes
• Philip Watson: Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Journal of Music
• Ken Waxman: JazzWord
• Jason Weiss: The Wire, Tinta Regada
• Michael J. West: DownBeat, Washington City Paper
• Richard Williams: The Blue Moment
• Jerome Wilson: All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax
• Kazue Yokoi: JazzTokyo

Total: 127 voters.

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