6th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2011
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David R. Adler (JazzTimes, The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
  2. Alexis Cuadrado, Noneto Ibérico (BJU)
  3. Ben Allison, Action-Refraction (Palmetto)
  4. Anthony Wilson, Seasons: Live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Goat Hill)
  5. Chris Dingman, Waking Dreams (Between Worlds)
  6. Tony Malaby, Tony Malaby's Novela (Clean Feed)
  7. Brian Carpenter, Hothouse Stomp (Accurate)
  8. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)
  9. Pat Metheny, What's It All About (Nonesuch)
  10. Ralph Peterson, Outer Reaches (Onyx)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. Jimmie Lunceford, The Complete Decca Sessions (Mosaic)

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Scott Albin (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Gary Burton, Common Ground (Mack Avenue)
  2. Yamandu Costa & Hamilton de Holanda, Live! (Adventure Music)
  3. Ran Blake & Dominique Eade, Whirlpool (Jazz Project)
  4. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  5. Terell Stafford, This Side of Strayhorn (MaxJazz)
  6. Brian Lynch, Unsung Heroes (Holistic MusicWorks)
  7. Phil Woods & Bill Mays, Woods & Mays (Palmetto)
  8. Les Doigts de l'Homme, 1910 (Alma)
  9. James Carter, At the Crossroads (Emarcy)
  10. Monty Alexander, Uplift (Jazz Legacy)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. Sam Rivers, The Quest (Red)

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Clifford Allen (The New York City Jazz Record, Ni Kantu)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Dixon, Envoi (Victo)
  2. Akira Sakata, . . . And That's the Story of Jazz (Family Vineyard)
  3. Juma Sultan, Father of Origin (Eremite)
  4. Anthony Braxton, Trillium E (Braxton House)
  5. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  6. Roscoe Mitchell, Before There Was Sound (Nessa)
  7. David S. Ware-Cooper-Moore-William Parker-Muhammad Ali, Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)
  8. Thirteenth Assembly Station, Direct (Important)
  9. Agustí Fernández, El Laberint de la Memòria (Mbari)
  10. Muhal Richard Abrams, SoundDance (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)
  2. John Surman, Flashpoint (Cuneiform)
  3. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)

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A.D. Amorosi (Philadelphia Inquirer, Blurt)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Claudia Quintet + 1, What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)
  2. Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri, Athens Concert (ECM)
  3. Pat Martino, Undeniable (HighNote)
  4. Taylor Ho Bynum, Apparent Distance (Firehouse 12)
  5. Tim Hagans, The Moon Is Waiting (Palmetto)
  6. Christian McBride, The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue)
  7. Vicious World, Plays the Music of Rufus Wainwright (Spinaround)
  8. Landrus Kaleidoscope, Capsule (Blueland)
  9. Giacomo Gates, The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant)
  10. São Paulo Underground, Três Cabeças Loucuras (Cuneiform)

REISSUES

  1. Songs for the Jewish-American Jet Set: The Tikva Records Story 1950-1973 (Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation)
  2. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. John Surman, Flashpoint (Cuneiform)

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Larry Appelbaum (JazzTimes, WPFW-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vince Mendoza, Nights on Earth (Horizontal)
  2. Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic Project (Concord)
  3. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
  4. Abdullah Ibrahim, Sotho Blue (Sunnyside)
  5. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Samdhi (ACT)
  6. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  7. Roy Haynes, Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
  8. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  9. Christian McBride, The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue)
  10. Stefon Harris-Christian Scott-David Sanchez, Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)

REISSUES

  1. Modern Jazz Quartet, The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. First Impulse!: The Creed Taylor Collectionb 50th Anniversary (Verve)

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Chris Barton (Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  2. Aaron Goldberg & Guillermo Klein, Bienestan (Sunnyside)
  3. Jim Black-Trevor Dunn-Oscar Noriega-Chris Speed, Endangered Blood (Skirl)
  4. Starlicker, Double Demon (Delmark)
  5. Jeff Gauthier, Open Source (Cryptogramophone)
  6. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter One: Les Gens de Couleur Libres (Constellation)
  7. JD Allen, Victory! (Sunnyside)
  8. Colin Vallon, Rruga (ECM)
  9. Bill McHenry, Ghosts of the Sun (Sunnyside)
  10. Shane Endsley, Then the Other (Low Electrical)

REISSUES

  1. Nina Simone, Nina Simone Sings the Blues (4 Men With Beards)
  2. Miles Davis, Bitches Brew Live (Sony/Legacy)
  3. First Impulse!: The Creed Taylor Collectionb 50th Anniversary (Verve)

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Nick Bewsey (Icon Magazine, JazzInSpace)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  3. Ben Allison, Action-Refraction (Palmetto)
  4. Gilad Hekselman, Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant du Monde)
  5. Noah Preminger, Before the Rain (Palmetto)
  6. Giacomo Gates, The Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant)
  7. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  8. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  9. Marcin Wasilewski, Faithful (ECM)
  10. Jake Saslow, Crosby Street (14th Street)

REISSUES

  1. Stan Getz, Quintets: The Clef & Norgran Studio Albums (Hip-O-Select)
  2. Ron Carter, All Blues (CTI/Masterworks Jazz)
  3. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Larry Birnbaum (Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  2. Muhal Richard Abrams, SoundDance (Pi)
  3. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  4. David S. Ware-Cooper-Moore-William Parker-Muhammad Ali, Planetary Unknown (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Vijay Iyer, Tirtha (ACT)
  6. World Saxophone Quartet, Yes We Can (Jazzwerkstatt)
  7. The Cookers, Cast the First Stone (Plus Loin Music)
  8. Terell Stafford, This Side of Strayhorn (MaxJazz)
  9. Andrew Cyrille, Route de Freres (TUM)
  10. Trombone Shorty, For True (Verve Forecast)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  2. Stan Getz & Cal Tjader, Sextet (Fantasy/OJC Remasters)
  3. Junior Wells, Hoodoo Man Blues (Delmark)

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Paul Blair (Hot House, Jazzmozaiek)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brian Lynch, Unsung Heroes (Holistic MusicWorks)
  2. Cecilia Coleman, Oh Boy! (PandaKat)
  3. Tyler Blanton, Botanic (self-released)
  4. Walt Weiskopf, Live at Koger Hall (Capri)
  5. Chris Dingman, Waking Dreams (Between Worlds)
  6. Dead Cat Bounce, Chance Encounters (Cuneiform)
  7. Harris Eisenstadt, Canada Day II (Songlines)
  8. Chris Byars, Lucky Strikes Again (SteepleChase)
  9. Jay Ashby & Steve Davis, Mistaken Identity (MCG)
  10. Shane Endsley, Then the Other (Low Electrical)

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Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal, Village Voice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri, Athens Concert (ECM)
  2. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  3. Fred Hersch, Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto)
  4. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  5. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  6. Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Fé -- Faith (5Passion)
  7. Steve Coleman, The Mancy of Sound (Pi)
  8. Harriet Tubman, Ascension (Sunnyside)
  9. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  10. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  2. Jimmie Lunceford, The Complete Decca Sessions (Mosaic)
  3. Ray Charles, Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles (Concord)

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Bob Blumenthal (Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kenny Werner, Balloons (Half Note)
  2. Tyshawn Sorey, Oblique-1 (Pi)
  3. Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic Project (Concord)
  4. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  5. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  6. Amir ElSaffar, Inana (Pi)
  7. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  8. John Santos, La Esperanza (Machete)
  9. JD Allen, Victory! (Sunnyside)
  10. Jazz Passengers, Reunited (JustinTime)

REISSUES

  1. Modern Jazz Quartet, The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings (Mosaic)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. Stan Getz, Quintets: The Clef & Norgran Studio Albums (Hip-O-Select)

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Philip Booth (Downbeat, JazzTimes, Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. 3 Cohens, Family (Anzic)
  2. Pilc Moutin Hoenig, Threedom (Motéma)
  3. Joe Lovano, Bird Songs (Blue Note)
  4. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  5. Kenny Wheeler, One of Many (CAM Jazz)
  6. Sam Yahel, From Sun to Sun (Origin)
  7. Tom Harrell, Time of the Sun (HighNote)
  8. John Scofield, A Moment's Peace (Emarcy)
  9. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Race Riot Suite (The Royal Potato Family)
  10. Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood, MSMW Live: In Case the World Changes Its Mind (Indirecto)

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Michael Bourne (WBGO, Downbeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderazzo, Songs of Mirth and Melancholy (Marsalis Music)
  2. Roy Haynes, Roy-alty (Dreyfus)
  3. Cyrus Chestnut, Journeys (Jazz Legacy)
  4. [Bob Belden], Miles Español: New Sketches of Spain (E1)
  5. Roseanna Vitro, The Music of Randy Newman (Motéma)
  6. Dominic Farinacci, Dawn of Goodbye (E1)
  7. Honey Ear Trio, Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven)
  8. Térez Montcalm, Here's to You (self-released)
  9. Pilc Moutin Hoenig, Threedom (Motéma)
  10. Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton, Play the Blues (Reprise/JALC)

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Shaun Brady (Philadelphia Inquirer, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. BB & C, The Veil (Cryptogramophone)
  2. Samuel Blaser & Paul Motian, Consort in Motion (Kind of Blue)
  3. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
  4. Matthew Shipp, Art of the Improviser (Thirsty Ear)
  5. Steve Coleman, The Mancy of Sound (Pi)
  6. David S. Ware, Organica (Solo Saxophones, Volume 2) (AUM Fidelity)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith, Heart's Reflections (Cuneiform)
  8. Darius Jones, Big Gurl (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Rez Abbasi, Suno Suno (Enja)
  10. Curtis Macdonald, Community Immunity (Greenleaf Music)

REISSUES

  1. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Marcela Breton (JJA)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Cartagena! Curro Fuentes & the Big Band Cumbia and Descarga Sound of Colombia 1962-1972 (Soundway)
  2. Cachao, The Last Mambo: La Leyenda en Vivo (Sony)
  3. Cecilia Coleman, Oh Boy! (PandaKat)
  4. Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra & Bobby Sanabria, Tito Puente Masterworks Live!!! (Jazzheads)
  5. Jane Bunnett & Hilario Duran, Cuban Rhapsody (Alma)
  6. Susana Baca, Afrodiaspora (Luaka Bop)
  7. Pedro Giraudo, Cordoba (Zoho)
  8. Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic Project (Concord)
  9. Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri, Athens Concert (ECM)
  10. Tommy Vig, Welcome to Hungary (Klasszikus Jazz)

REISSUES

  1. Tony Bennett, The Complete Collection (Sony)
  2. Aretha Franklin, Take a Look: Complete on Columbia (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Modern Jazz Quartet, The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings (Mosaic)

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Christian Broeckling (Jazz Thing, Berliner Zeitung [Germany])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jürg Wickihalder, Jump! (Intakt)
  2. Angelika Niescier, Quite Simply (Enja)
  3. Trio 3 + Geri Allen, Celebrating Mary Lou Williams (Intakt)
  4. Sonny Rollins, Road Shows, Vol. 2 (Doxy/Emarcy)
  5. Archie Shepp & Joachim Kühn, Wo!Man (Archieball)
  6. Das Kapital, Plays Hanns Eisler: Conflicts & Conclusions (Das Kapital)
  7. Muhal Richard Abrams, SoundDance (Pi)
  8. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  9. James Carter, At the Crossroads (Emarcy)
  10. Steve Coleman, The Mancy of Sound (Pi)

REISSUES

  1. FMP In Rückblick In Retrospect 1969-2010 (FMP)

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Stuart Broomer (The New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nate Wooley, (Put Your) Hands Together (Clean Feed)
  2. Peter Evans, Ghosts (More Is More)
  3. Agustí Fernández, El Laberint de la Memòria (Mbari)
  4. Hans Koller, Cry, Want (psi)
  5. Joelle Léandre, Can You Hear Me? (Leo)
  6. Ikue Mori-Mark Nauseef-Evan Parker-Bill Laswell, Near Nadir (Tzadik)
  7. Tarfala Trio, Syzygy (NoBusiness)
  8. Juma Sultan, Father of Origin (Eremite)
  9. Tony Malaby, Tony Malaby's Novela (Clean Feed)
  10. Potsa Lotsa, The Complete Works of Eric Dolphy (Jazzwerkstatt)

REISSUES

  1. Heiner Stadler, Tribute to Bird and Monk (Labor)
  2. Marion Brown, Geechee Recollections/Sweet Earth Flying (Impulse)
  3. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)

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Nate Cavalieri (Rhapsody, Google Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Colin Vallon, Rruga (ECM)
  2. Steve Coleman, The Mancy of Sound (Pi)
  3. Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic Project (Concord)
  4. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)
  5. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  6. Stefon Harris-Christian Scott-David Sanchez, Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)
  7. Amir ElSaffar, Inana (Pi)
  8. Colin Stetson, New History Warfare, Vol. 2: Judges (Constellation)
  9. Randy Brecker & Danish Radio Big Band, The Jazz Ballad Songbook (Red Dot)
  10. Warren Wolf, Warren Wolf (Mack Avenue)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. John Coltrane, The Impulse! Albums: Volume Five (Impulse/Hip-O Select)
  3. Modern Jazz Quartet, The Complete Atlantic Studio Recordings (Mosaic)

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John Chacona (Erie, PA Times-News, Signal to Noise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
  2. Tyshawn Sorey, Oblique-1 (Pi)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Samdhi (ACT)
  4. Eric Harland, Voyager: Live by Night (Sunnyside)
  5. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  6. Amir ElSaffar, Inana (Pi)
  7. Claudia Quintet + 1, What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)
  8. Roscoe Mitchell, Before There Was Sound (Nessa)
  9. Dave Douglas, Rare Metals [Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 1] (Greenleaf Music)
  10. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

REISSUES

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  2. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)

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Alan Chase (The Wire, Portsmouth, NH)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Aurora Nealand, A Tribute to Sidney Bechet: Live in New Orleans (self-released)
  2. Brian Lynch, Unsung Heroes (Holistic MusicWorks)
  3. 3 Cohens, Family (Anzic)
  4. Jimmy Greene, Live at Smalls (Smalls Live)
  5. Dave Liebman, The Turnaround (Jazzwerkstatt)
  6. BANN (Seamus Blake-Jay Anderson-Oz Noy-Adam Nussbaum), As You Like It (JazzEyes)
  7. Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet, Live! (Ear Up)
  8. Mike LeDonne, Keep the Faith (Savant)
  9. Bruce Barth, Live at Smalls (Smalls Live)
  10. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Forever Lasting -- Live in Tokyo (Planet Arts)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Jimmie Lunceford, The Complete Decca Sessions (Mosaic)
  3. Horacee Arnold, Tales of the Exonerated Flea (Wounded Bird)

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Nate Chinen (New York Times, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
  2. Tyshawn Sorey, Oblique-1 (Pi)
  3. Craig Taborn, Avenging Angel (ECM)
  4. Miguel Zenón, Alma Adentro: A Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music)
  5. Gilad Hekselman, Hearts Wide Open (Le Chant du Monde)
  6. Starlicker, Double Demon (Delmark)
  7. Gretchen Parlato, The Lost and Found (ObliqSound)
  8. Chris Dingman, Waking Dreams (Between Worlds)
  9. Claudia Quintet + 1, What is the Beautiful? (Cuneiform)
  10. Lee Konitz-Brad Mehldau-Charlie Haden-Paul Motian, Live at Birdland (ECM)

REISSUES

  1. Miles Davis, Live in Europe: The Bootleg Series Volume 1 (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (International Phonograph)
  3. Bill Dixon, Intents and Purposes (International Phonograph)

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