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2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: A-O

New releases, reissues, debuts, and more—each critic's picks

1 Thelonious Monk Plays Ellington Riverside/Keepnews Collection
2 George Russell Ezz-thetics Riverside
3 Red Garland Soul Junction Prestige

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Fay Victor Cartwheels Through the Cosmos Artist Share

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Antonio Sanchez Migration CamJazz

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Bobby Sanabria Big Band Urban Folk Tales Jazzheads


Dan Morgenstern (Annual Review of Jazz Studies, WBGO-FM)

NEW RELEASES

1 Joe Lovano/Hank Jones Kids: Live at Dizzy’s Blue Note
2 Bill Holman Hommage Jazzed Media
3 Charles Mingus Cornell 1964 Blue Note
4 The Benny Carter Centennial Project Evening Star
5 Bennie Wallace Disorder at the Border Justin Time
6 Anat Cohen Poetica Anzic
7 Joe Cohn Restless Arbors
8 Dave Brubeck Indian Summer Telarc
9 Jason Lindner Live at the Jazz Gallery Anzic
10 Joshua Redman Back East Nonesuch

REISSUES

l Chu Berry Classic Columbia and Victor Sessions Mosaic
2 Duke Ellington The Complete 1936-1940 Variety,Vocalion and Okeh Small Group Sessions Mosaic
3 Al Cohn/Joe Newman/Freddie Green Mosaic Select

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Patti Austin Avant-Gershwin Rendezvous Entertainment

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Paquito D’Rivera Funk Tango Sunnyside


Russ Musto (All About Jazz—New York)

NEW RELEASES

1 Dee Dee Bridgewater Red Earth DDB/Emarcy
2 McCoy Tyner Quartet McCoy Tyner Music/HalfNote
3 Wallace Roney Jazz HighNote
4 Robert Glasper In My Element Blue Note
5 Maria Schneider Sky Blue ArtistShare?6 Insight A Genesis (s/r) Miles High
7 Anat Cohen Poetica Anzic
8 Willie Williams Comet Ride
9 Jeff “Tain” Watts & the Ebonix Folk’s Music Black Keys
10 David Murray Sacred Ground Justin Time

REISSUES

1 Roy Haynes A Life In Time: The Roy Haynes Story Dreyfus
2 Ray Barretto The Essential Ray Barretto: A Man His Music
3 Dewey Redman The Struggle Continues ECM

VOCAL

Dee Dee Bridgewater Red Earth DDB/Emarcy

DEBUT

Insight A Genesis (s/r) Miles High

LATIN

Logan Richardson Cerebral Flow Fresh Sound New Talent


Dan Ouellette (Billboard, Downbeat, napster.com)

NEW RELEASES

1 Herbie Hancock River: The Joni Letters Verve
2 Terence Blanchard A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina) Blue Note
3 Michael Brecker Pilgrimage Heads Up
4 Dee Dee Bridgewater Red Earth EmArcy
5 Joe Zawinul Brown Street Heads Up
6 Charlie Hunter Mistico Fantasy/Concord
7 Floratone Blue Note
8 Slow Poke At Home Palmetto
9 Joshua Redman Back East Nonesuch
10 David Murray Sacred Ground Justin Time

REISSUES

1 Miles Davis The Complete On the Corner Sessions Columbia/Legacy
2 George Russell Ezz-thetics (Riverside/Keepnews Collection
3 Joe Henderson Power to the People Milestone/Keepnews Collection

VOCAL

Dee Dee Bridgewater Red Earth EmArcy

DEBUT

Waverly Seven Yo! Bobby Anzic

LATIN

Bobby Sanabria Big Band Urban Folk Tales Jazzheads


Ted Panken (Downbeat, Jazziz, WKCR-FM)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically, 5.5 points each)

The Bad Plus Prog Heads Up
Anthony Braxton 9 Compositions, Iridium, 2006 Firehouse 12
Michael Brecker Pilgrimage Heads Up
Wynton Marsalis & JALC Orchestra Congo Square-Love, Libation, Liberation JALC
Charles Mingus Cornell, 1964 Blue Note
Steve Nelson Sound Effect HighNote
Chris Potter Follow the Red Line-Live at the Village Vanguard Sunnyside
Maria Schneider Sky Blue Artist Share
Kendrick Scott (Oracle) The Source World Culture
Jeff “Tain” Watts & the Ebonix Folk’s Music Black Keys

REISSUES (listed alphabetically, 2 points each)

Duke Ellington The Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion & Okeh Small Group Sessions Mosaic
Billie Holiday Rare Recordings 1934-1959 ESP-Disk
Ben Webster Dig Ben Storyville

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Kurt Elling Night Moves Concord

DEBUT

Kendrick Scott (Oracle) The Source World Culture

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