Jazz Critics Poll: 2009
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Ballots 2009 [5]: Lloyd Sachs - Ron Wynn

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Lloyd Sachs (Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
  2. John Hollenbeck: Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
  3. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
  4. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  5. Steve Kuhn: Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
  6. Christian Lillinger: First Reason (Clean Feed)
  7. Roswell Rudd: Trombone Tribe (Sunnyside)
  8. Matthew Shipp: Harmonic Disorder (Thirsty Ear)
  9. Matt Wilson: That's Gonna Leave a Mark (Palmetto)
  10. Lucky 7's: Pluto Junkyard (Clean Feed)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
  2. Air: Air Song (Why Not)
  3. Tito Rodriguez: El Inolvidable: A Man and His Music (Fania)

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Gene Seymour (Eye on the Arts)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Keith Jarrett: Paris/London: Testament (ECM)
  2. Joshua Redman: Compass (Nonesuch)
  3. Dave Douglas: Spirit Moves (Greenleaf Music)
  4. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  5. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette: Yesterdays (ECM)
  6. Fly: Sky & Country (ECM)
  7. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  8. Jon Gordon: Evolution (ArtistShare)
  9. Abdullah Ibrahim: Senzo (Sunnyside)
  10. John Surman: Brewster's Rooster (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  2. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)

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Mike Shanley (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chris Potter: Ultrahang (ArtistShare)
  2. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
  3. Josh Berman: Old Idea (Delmark)
  4. Ravi Coltrane: Blending Times (Savoy Jazz)
  5. The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF/Concord)
  6. Warren Smith: Old News, Borrowed Blues (Engine)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa: Apti (Innova)
  8. Flow Trio: Rejuvenation (ESP-Disk)
  9. John Patitucci: Remembrance (Concord)
  10. Sean Jones: The Search Within (Mack Avenue)

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Bill Shoemaker (pointofdeparture.org, Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fred Anderson: 21st Century Chase (Delmark)
  2. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  3. Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
  4. Louis Moholo-Moholo: An Open Letter to My Wife Mpumi (Ogun)
  5. Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: Abbey Road Quartet (Treader)
  6. Nicole Mitchell: Renegades (Delmark)
  7. Joe Morris-Simon H. Fell-Alex Ward: The Necessary and the Possible (Victo)
  8. : A Matter of Blood (Furthermore)
  9. : Transatlantic Visions (RogueArt)
  10. Salem Washington: Strings (Cadence)

REISSUES

  1. Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree (Hatology)
  2. Charles Tyler: Saga of the Outlaws (Nessa)
  3. Roscoe Mitchell: The Solo Concert (AECO)

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Hank Shteamer (Time Out New York, Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ran Blake: Driftwoods (Tompkins Square)
  2. Chad Taylor: Circle Down (482 Music)
  3. Jon Irabagon & Mike Pride: I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues (Loyal Label)
  4. John Hollenbeck: Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
  5. Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)
  6. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  7. Borah Bergman: Luminescence (Tzadik)
  8. Jim Black: Houseplant (Winter & Winter)
  9. Charles Evans & Neil Shah: Live at Saint Stephens (Hot Cup)
  10. Loren Stillman: Winter Fruits (Pirouet)

REISSUES

  1. Walt Dickerson: Tell Us Only the Beautiful Things (Why Not)
  2. Horace Tapscott: The Dark Tree (Hatology)
  3. Revolutionary Ensemble: Vietnam (ESP-Disk)

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Slim (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Zan Stewart (Newark Star-Ledger)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Moody: 4A (IPO)
  2. Cedar Walton: Voices Deep Within (HighNote)
  3. Frank Wess: Once Is Not Enough (Labeth Music)
  4. Lanny Morgan: 6 (ACM)
  5. McCoy Tyner: Solo: Live From San Francisco (Half Note)
  6. Luis Bonilla: I Talking Now! (Planet Arts)
  7. Grant Stewart: Plays the Music of Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine)
  8. SFJazz Collective: Live 2009: The Works of McCoy Tyner (SFJazz)
  9. Bobby Hutcherson: Wise One (Kind of Blue)
  10. Ed Palermo: Eddy Loves Frank (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Billie Holiday: The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  2. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)
  3. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)

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Michael Steinman (Cadence, All About Jazz-New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dan Block-Jon-Erik Kellso-Andrew Scott: Nostalgia (Sackville)
  2. Joel Press & Kyle Aho: Untying the Standard (Cadence Jazz)
  3. Grant Stewart: Plays the Music of Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine)
  4. Marty Grosz: Hot Winds, the Classic Sessions (Arbors)
  5. Dick Hyman: Thinking About Bix (Reference)
  6. Soprano Summit: Live in '75 and More (Arbors)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
  2. Various Artists: Professor Visits Harlem: Swing Strings (AB Fable)
  3. Peter Ecklund: Horn of Plenty (Classic Jazz)

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W. Royal Stokes (jazzhouse.org; wroyalstokes.com)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Jeff Stockton (All About Jazz-New York)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Evans: The King of All Instruments (Hot Cup)
  2. Nicole Mitchell: Renegades (Delmark)
  3. Warren Smith: Old News, Borrowed Blues (Engine)
  4. Darius Jones: Man'ish Boy (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)
  6. Flow Trio: Rejuvenation (ESP-Disk)
  7. Miroslav Vitous: Remembering Weather Report (ECM)
  8. John Surman: Brewster's Rooster (ECM)
  9. Burnt Sugar: Making Love to the Dark Ages (Live Wired)
  10. Fred Anderson: Live at Velvet Lounge Volume III (Asian Improv)

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Mark Stryker (Detroit Free Press)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  2. Tom Harrell: Prana Dance (HighNote)
  3. Miroslav Vitous: Remembering Weather Report (ECM)
  4. John Hollenbeck: Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside)
  5. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)
  6. Clayton Brothers: Brother to Brother (ArtistShare)
  7. Steve Kuhn: Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
  8. Chris Potter: Ultrahang (ArtistShare)
  9. Dana Hall: Into the Light (Origin)
  10. Grant Stewart: Plays the Music of Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
  2. Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious (Nessa)
  3. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)

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John F. Szwed (Signal to Noise, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Atomic: Retrograde (Jazzland)
  2. Louis Armstrong: Fleischmann's Yeast Show (Jazz Society)
  3. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  4. Satoko Fujii & Myra Melford: Under the Water (Libra)
  5. : Elise (Compunctio)
  6. Geir Lysne: The Greig Code (ACT)
  7. Burnt Sugar: Making Love to the Dark Ages (Live Wired)
  8. Bill Dixon: Tapestries for Small Orchestra (Firehouse 12)
  9. David Binney: Third Occasion (Mythology)
  10. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
  2. Denny Zeitlin: Mosaic Select: The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions (Mosaic)
  3. Various Artists: Freedom Rhythm & Sound: Revolutionary Jazz 1963-82 (Soul Jazz)

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Neil Tesser (Jazziz, examiner.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. : Whispering Elephants (SteepleChase)
  2. Luis Bonilla: (Planet Arts)
  3. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  4. Martial Solal: Live at the Village Vanguard (CAM Jazz)
  5. : Historicity (ACT)
  6. Evan Parker: The Moment's Energy (ECM)
  7. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  8. Gary Burton-Pat Metheny-Steve Swallow-Antonio Sanchez: Quartet Live (Concord)
  9. Dave Douglas: A Single Sky (Greenleaf Music)
  10. Derrick Gardner: Echoes of Ethnicity (Owl Studios)

REISSUES

  1. Denny Zeitlin: Mosaic Select: The Columbia Studio Trio Sessions (Mosaic)
  2. Billie Holiday: The Complete Commodore & Decca Masters (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  3. Bill Bruford: The Summerfold Collection 1987-2008 (Summerfold)

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Greg Thomas (Jazz It Up!, National Jazz Museum in Harlem)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Roy Hargrove: Emergence (Verve)
  2. Bobby Broom: Plays for Monk (Origin)
  3. Christian McBride: Kind of Brown (Mack Avenue)
  4. Benny Golson: New Time, New 'Tet (Concord)
  5. Kurt Elling: Dedicated to You (Concord)
  6. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  7. Jon Gordon: Evolution (ArtistShare)
  8. Cyrus Chestnut: Spirit (Jazz Legacy)
  9. Robert Glasper: Double Booked (Blue Note)
  10. Dominick Farinacci: Lover's Tales and Dances (Koch)

REISSUES

  1. Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Hip-O Select/Verve)
  2. Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (Blue Note)
  3. Johnny Griffin: From Johnny Griffin With Love (Storyville)

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George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Keith Jarrett: Paris/London: Testament (ECM)
  2. James Moody: 4A (IPO)
  3. Linda Oh: Entry (Linda Oh Music)
  4. Branford Marsalis: Metamorphosen (Marsalis Music)
  5. Ravi Coltrane: Blending Times (Savoy Jazz)
  6. Jim Hall & Bill Frisell: Hemispheres (ArtistShare)
  7. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
  8. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  9. Martial Solal: Live at the Village Vanguard (CAM Jazz)
  10. Matthew Shipp: Harmonic Disorder (Thirsty Ear)

REISSUES

  1. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-46) (Mosaic)
  2. Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Album Collection (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)

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Jason Weiss (Shuffle Boyle, Signal to Noise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tony Malaby: Warblepeck (Songlines)
  2. Ab Baars & Ken Vandermark: Goofy June Bug (Wig)
  3. Cliff Korman: trainsofthought (Almonds & Roses)
  4. Roswell Rudd: Trombone Tribe (Sunnyside)
  5. Bengt Berger: Beches Brew (Country & Eastern)
  6. Frank Carlberg: The American Dream (Red Piano)
  7. Denis Colin: Subject to Change (Le Chant du Monde)
  8. Jeremy Udden: Plainville (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  9. Joe Morris: Colorfield (ESP-Disk)
  10. Jason Adasiewicz: Varmint (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Elton Dean: Happy Daze/Oh! For the Edge (Ogun)
  2. Revolutionary Ensemble: Vietnam (ESP-Disk)
  3. Eddy Louiss: (Tempo)

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Michael J. West (Washington City Paper, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ramsey Lewis: Songs From the Heart (Concord)
  2. Darcy James Argue: Infernal Machines (New Amsterdam)
  3. Rakalam Bob Moses: Father's Day B'hash (Sunnyside)
  4. Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream (ObliqSound)
  5. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)
  6. Arve Henriksen: Cartography (ECM)
  7. Steve Lehman: Travail, Transformation, and Flow (Pi)
  8. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  9. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)
  10. Robert Glasper: Double Booked (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious (Nessa)
  2. Tony Bennett & Bill Evans: The Complete Recordings (Fantasy)
  3. Tony Williams: Spring (Blue Note)

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Josef Woodard (Downbeat, JazzTimes, Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joe Lovano: Folk Art (Blue Note)
  2. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  3. Dave Douglas: Spirit Moves (Greenleaf Music)
  4. Jim Beard: Revolutions (Sunnyside)
  5. The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF/Concord)
  6. Melody Gardot: My One and Only Thrill (Verve)
  7. Joshua Redman: Compass (Nonesuch)
  8. Arve Henrisksen: Cartography (ECM)
  9. Jeff "Tain" Watts: Watts (Dark Key)
  10. Vijay Iyer: Historicity (ACT)

REISSUES

  1. Codona (Don Cherry-Nana Vasconcelos-Collin Walcott): The Codona Trilogy (ECM)
  2. Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Lee Konitz & Martial Solal: Star Eyes 1983 (Hatology)

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Ron Wynn (Nashville City Paper, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Carter-John Medeski-Christian McBride-Adam Rogers-Joey Baron: Heaven on Earth (Half Note)
  2. Kurt Elling: Dedicated to You (Concord)
  3. Robert Glasper: Double Booked (Blue Note)
  4. Steve Kuhn: Mostly Coltrane (ECM)
  5. Jackie Ryan: Doozy (Open Art)
  6. Tierney Sutton: Desire (Telarc)
  7. Henry Threadgill: This Brings Us To, Volume 1 (Pi)
  8. Allen Toussaint: The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch)
  9. : Esta Plena (Marsalis Music)
  10. Stefon Harris: Urbanus (Concord)

REISSUES

  1. Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Miles Davis: Sketches of Spain (Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. John Coltrane: Side Steps (Prestige)

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