2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: P-Z

1 Miles Davis The Complete On the Corner Sessions Columbia/Legacy
2 Bennie Maupin The Jewel in the Lotus ECM
3 Charles Mingus In Paris: The Complete America Recordings Sunnyside

VOCAL

Sam Sadigursky The Words Project New Amsterdam

DEBUT

Tyshawn Sorey That/Not Firehouse 12

LATIN

No choice

Zan Stewart (Newark Star-Ledger)

NEW RELEASES

1 McCoy Tyner Quartet McCoy Tyner Music/HalfNote
2 Joel Frahm We Used to Dance Anzic
3 Tom Harrell Light On High Note
4 Tardo Hammer Look Stop & Listen: The Music of Tadd Dameron Sharp Nine
5 Joe Lovano & Hank Jones Kids: Live at Dizzy’s Blue Note
6 Mark Sherman Family First Miles High
7 Grant Stewart In the Still of the Night Sharp Nine
8 Dave Stryker & Steve Slagel Latest Outlook ZoHo
9 Charles Davis Land of Dreams Smalls
10 Sonny Fortune You and the Night and the Music 18th and Vine

REISSUES

1 John Coltrane Interplay Prestige
2 McCoy Tyner Mosaic Select
3 Tony Williams Mosaic Select

VOCAL

Amy London When I Look Into Your Eyes Motema

DEBUT

Zaid Nasser Escape From New York Smalls

LATIN

Bobby Sanabria Big Band Urban Folktales Jazzheads?

Jeff Stockton (All About Jazz—New York)

NEW RELEASES

1 William Parker Corn Meal Dance AUM Fidelity
2 David Murray Sacred Ground Justin Time
3 Powerhouse Sound Oslo/Chicago: Breaks Atavistic
4 Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake From the River to the Ocean Thrill Jockey
5 Rob Brown Sounds Clean Feed
6 Andy Bey Ain’t Necessarily So 12th St.
7 Steve Swell Swimming in a Galaxy of Goodwill and Sorrow Rogue Art
8 Alvin Fielder A Measure of Vision Clean Feed
9 Miles Davis Winter in Europe 1967 Gambit
10 Omer Avital Room to Grow Smalls

REISSUES

VOCAL

Andy Bey Ain’t Necessarily So 12th St.

DEBUT

No choice

LATIN

No choice

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

NEW RELEASES

1 Evan Christopher Delta Bound Arbors
2 Maria Schneider Sky Blue ArtistShare
3 Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd Early and Late Cuneiform
4 Anat Cohen Noir Anzic
5 Gerald Wilson Monterey Moods Mack Avenue
6 Anat Fort A Long Story ECM
7 Eldar Re-imagination Masterworks Jazz/Sony BMG
8 Bill Mays Inventions Trio Palmetto
9 Pink Martini Hey Eugene! Heinz
10 Mike Markaverich Reel Time Standards Marktime

REISSUES

1 Lionel Hampton The Complete Victor Sessions, 1937-1941 Mosaic
2 Billie Holiday Lady Day: The Master Takes and Singles Columbia/Legacy
3 Jim Robinson Economy Hall Breakdown Delmark

VOCAL

Dee Dee Bridgewater Red Earth DDB/Decca

DEBUT

Sandy Asirvatham Memoir JazzGrrl Music

LATIN

Papo Vazquez From the Badlands Picaro

John Szwed (Signal to Noise, Wire)

NEW RELEASES

1 Steve Harris & Zaum I Hope You Never Love Anything as Much as I Love You Amazon
2 Anthony Braxton 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006. Firehouse 12
3 Joe Lovano & Hank Jones Kids: Live at Dizzy’s Blue Note
4 Antoine Herve Road Movie Nocturne
5 Harris Eisenstadt The All-Seeing Eye + Octets Poo-Bah
6 Tim Berne’s Blood Count Seconds Screwgun
7 Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette My Foolish Heart ECM
8 Michael Bisio-Raymond Boni-Dominic Duval-Joe McPhee Port of Saints Cadence Jazz
9 Donny McCaslin In Pursuit Sunnyside
10 Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd Early and Late Cuneiform

REISSUES

1 Miles Davis The Complete On the Corner Sessions Columbia/Legacy
2 Chu Berry The Classic Columbia and Victor Sessions Mosaic
3 Don Byas Amoureusement Votre Polydor

VOCAL

Kurt Elling Nightmoves Concord

DEBUT

Tyshawn Sorey That/Not Firehouse 12?

LATIN

Antonio Sanchez Migration Camden Jazz

Neil Tesser (Chicago Reader, Listen Here)

NEW RELEASES

1 Michael Brecker Pilgrimage Heads Up
2 Exploding Star Orchestra We Are All from Somewhere Else Thrill Jockey
3 Terence Blanchard A Tale of God’s Will Blue Note
4 Kurt Elling Nightmoves Concord
5 Bobby Sanabria Big Band Urban Folktales Jazzheads
6 Eldar Djangorov Re-Imaginination Sony
7 Tineke Postima A Journey That Matters Foreign Media Group
8 Dee Dee Bridgewater Red Earth DDB/Emarcy
9 Matt Wilson The Scenic Route Palmetto
10 John McLean Better Angels Blujazz

REISSUES

1 Roy Haynes A Life in Time Dreyfus
2 King Oliver Off the Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings Off the Record
3 Miles Davis The Complete On the Corner Sessions Columbia/Legacy

VOCAL

Kurt Elling Nightmoves Concord

DEBUT

Miles Okazaki Mirror Miles Okazawi

LATIN

Bobby Sanabria Big Band Urban Folktales Jazzheads

George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

1 Michael Brecker Pilgrimage Heads Up
2 Trio M Big Picture Cryptogramophone
3 Anat Cohen Poetica Anzic?4 Kenny Werner Lawn Chair Society Blue Note
5 Carla Bley The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu ECM
6 Joshua Redman Back East Nonesuch
7 Terence Blanchard A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina) Blue Note
8 Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd Still Life with Commentator Savoy Jazz
9 Maria Schneider Sky Blue ArtistShare
10 Holly Hofmann & Mike Wofford Live at Athenaeum Jazz, Vol. 2 Capri?

REISSUES

1 Miles Davis The Complete On The Corner Sessions Columbia/Legacy
2 Bennie Maupin The Jewel in the Lotus ECM
3 John Coltrane Interplay Prestige

VOCAL

Abbey Lincoln Abbey Sings Abbey Verve

DEBUT

Antonio Sanchez Migration Camjazz/Sunnyside

LATIN

Roswell Rudd & Yomo Toro El Espiritu Jibaro Sunnyside

Josef Woodard (Downbeat, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

1 Joe Zawinul Brown Street Heads Up
2 Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette My Foolish Heart ECM
3 The Bad Plus Prog Heads Up
4 Herbie Hancock The River: The Joni Letters Verve
5 Frode Haltli Passing Images ECM
6 Tierney Sutton On the Other Side Telarc
7 Chris Potter Song for Anyone Sunnyside
8 Terence Blanchard A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina) Blue Note
9 Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau Quartet Nonesuch
10 Charles Mingus Cornell 1964 Blue Note

REISSUES