2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: P-Z

Thierry Peremarti (Jazzman)

NEW RELEASES

1 Maria Schneider Sky Blue ArtistShare
2 Steve Lehman On Meaning Pi
3 Chris Potter Follow the Red Line: Live at the Village Vanguard Sunnyside
4 Jean-Michel Pilc New Dreams Dreyfus
5 Martial Solal Solitude Cam Jazz
6 The Bad Plus Prog Heads Up
7 Manu Codjia Songlines Beejazz
8 Michael Brecker Pilgrimage Heads Up
9 Muhal Richard Abrams Vision Towards Essence Pi
10 Bill McHenry Roses Sunnyside

REISSUES

1 Miles Davis The Complete On The Corner Sessions Columbia/Legacy
2 Fred Katz Folk Songs For Far Out Folk Reboot
3 Peter Brötzmann The Complete Machine Gun Sessions Atavistic/Unheard Music

VOCAL

Elisabeth Kontomanou Back to My Groove MFA

DEBUT

Tyshawn Sorey That/Not Firehouse 12

LATIN

Paquito D’Rivera Funk Tango Sunnyside

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Bob Porter (WBGO-FM)

NEW RELEASES

1 Harry Allen Hits by Brits Challenge
2 Evan Christopher Delta Bound Arbors
3 Harry Allen & Joe Cohn Music from Guys and Dolls Arbors
4 Jimmy Cobb Cobb’s Corner Chesky
5 Jon-Erik Kellso Blue Roof Blues Arbors
6 Kenny Burrell 75th Birthday Bash Blue Note
7 Bob French Marsalis Music Honors Marsalis Music
8 Jazz at the Philharmonic Hamburg 2/29/56 Fresh Sound
9 Harry Connick, Jr Chanson du Vieux Carre Marsalis Music
10 Bill Easley Businessman’s Bounce 18th & Vine

REISSUES

1 Chu Berry Classic Columbia & Victor Sessions Mosaic
2 Cat Anderson Cat’s In The Alley Fresh Sound
3 Dave McKenna Piano Solo Fresh Sound

VOCAL

Deborah Cox Destination Moon Decca

DEBUT

No choice

LATIN

No choice

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Doug Ramsey (JazzTimes, www.artsjournal.com/rifftides)

NEW RELEASES

1 Maria Schneider Sky Blue Artist Share
2 Bill Holman Hommage Jazzed Media
3 Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette: My Foolish Heart ECM
4 Bill Charlap Live at the Village Vanguard Blue Note
5 John Gross-Dave Frishberg-Charlie Doggett Strange Feeling Diatic
6 Larry Willis Blue Fable HighNote
7 Charles Mingus Cornell 1964 Blue Note
8 Pinky Winters Speak Low Cellar Door
9 Jan Lundgren A Swinging Rendezvous Marshmallow
10 Gerald Wilson Monterey Moods Mack Avenue

REISSUES

1 Zoot Sims Plays Tenor & 4 Altos Fresh Sound
2 Carmen McRae Live at Sugar Hill Time
3 Clifford Jordan Glass Bead Games Harvest Song

VOCAL

Pinky Winters Speak Low Cellar Door

DEBUT

Antonio Sanchez Migration Camjazz

LATIN

Hector Martnignon Refugee Zoho

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Derk Richardson (The Absolute Sound, sfgate.com)

NEW RELEASES

1 Nels Cline Singers Draw Breath Cryptogramophone
2 Charles Mingus Cornell 1964 Blue Note)
3 Muhal Richard Abrams Vision Towards Essence Pi
4 Alan Pasqua The Antisocial Club Cryptogramophone
5 Satoko Fujii Bacchus Muzak
6 Carla Bley The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu ECM
7 Trio M Big Picture Cryptogramophone
8 David S. Ware Renunciation AUM Fidelity
9 David Torn Prezens ECM
10 David Murray Sacred Ground Justin Time

REISSUES

1 Miles Davis The Complete On the Corner Sessions Columbia Legacy
2 Chu Berry Classic Columbia and Victor Sessions Mosaic
3 Andrew Hill Compulsion Blue Note

VOCAL

George Mraz & Iva Bittova Moravian Gems CubeMetier

DEBUT

Exploding Star Orchestra We Are All From Somewhere Else Thrill Jockey

LATIN

John Santos Papa Mambo Machete

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Bob Rusch (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

1 Mark Murphy Love Is What Stays Verve
2 Benjamin Koppel Babop Cowbell
3 Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble Pragmatic Optimism 360
4 Rodrigo Amado Surface European Echoes
5 Sam Newsome Monk Abstractions Sam Newsome
6 Steve Lacy & Roswell Rudd Early and Late Cuneiform
7 Alan Barnes & Scott Hamilton Zootcase Woodville
8 Hanna Richardson Live at the Fleece Lala
9 Joe Fonda & Ramon Lopez Silent Cascade Konnex
10 Irene Schweizer-Hamid Drake-Fred Anderson Willisau & Taktlos Intak

REISSUES

No choices

VOCAL

Mark Murphy Love Is What Stays Verve

DEBUT

Rodrigo Amado Surface European Echoes

LATIN

No choices

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Gene Seymour (Newsday)

NEW RELEASES

1 Charles Mingus Cornell 1964 Blue Note
2 Anat Cohen Poetica Anzic
3 Terence Blanchard A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina Blue Note
4 Joe Lovano & Hank Jones Kids: Live at Dizzy’s Blue Note
5 Herbie Hancock River: The Joni Letters Verve
6 Sam Yahel Truth and Beauty Origin
7 Carla Bley The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu Watt/ECM
8 John Abercrombie The Third Quartet ECM
9 McCoy Tyner Quartet McCoy Tyner Music/HalfNote
10 Maria Schneider Sky Blue Artist Share)

REISSUES

No choices

VOCAL

Kendra Shank A Spirit Free: Abbey Lincoln Songbook Challenge

DEBUT

No choice

LATIN

No choice

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Bill Shoemaker (pointofdeparture.org)

NEW RELEASES

1 William Parker Corn Meal Dance AUM Fidelity
2 Roscoe Mitchell Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 ECM
3 Uri Caine Plays Mozart Winter & Winter
4 Muhal Richard Abrams Vision Towards Essence Pi
5 McCoy Tyner McCoy Tyner Quartet McCoy Tyner Music/HalfNote
6 Ned Rothenberg Inner Diaspora Tzadik
7 Fred Anderson & Harrison Bankhead The Great Vision Concert Ayler
8 Connie Crothers Music is a Place New Artists
9 Stan Tracey Orchestra At the Appleby Jazz Festival ReSteamed
10 Harris Eisenstadt The All Seeing Eye + Octet Poo-Bah

REISSUES

1 Philip Cohran And the Artistic Heritage Ensemble Kelan-Zulu/Katalyst
2 Dewey Redman The Struggle Continues ECM
3 John Stevens & Evan Parker: Corner to Corner & The Longest Night Ogun

VOCAL

Dominique Eade & Jed Wilson Open Jazz Project

DEBUT

Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Pi

LATIN

Bobby Sanabria Big Band Urban Folktales Jazzheads

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Slim (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

1 Mal Waldron & David Frisesen Remembering Mal Soul Note
2 Ramon Lopez-Joe Fonda-Bruno Angelini Silent Cascade Konnex
3 Antfarm Quartet Dialogues Part 2 Dreambox
4 Leo Smith & Gunter Baby Sommer Wisdom in Time Intakt
5 Aki Takase & Silke Eberhard Ornette Coleman Anthology Intakt

REISSUES

No choices

VOCAL

Mark Murphy Love Is What Stays Verve

DEBUT

No choice

LATIN

No choice

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Steve Smith (Time Out New York, nightafternight.blogs.com)

NEW RELEASES

1 Tyshawn Sorey That/Not Firehouse 12
2 Robert Glasper In My Element Blue Note
3 Muhal Richard Abrams Vision Towards Essence Pi
4 Exploding Star Orchestra We Are All from Somewhere Else Thrill Jockey
5 Sam Sadigursky The Words Project New Amsterdam
6 Tim Berne's Bloodcount Seconds Screwgun
7 The Bad Plus Prog Do the Math/Heads Up
8 Brad Shepik Places You Go Songlines
9 Myra Melford & Tanya Kalmanovitch Heart Mountain Perspicacity
10 Amir ElSaffar Two Rivers Pi

REISSUES

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

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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?

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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

1 Albert Ayler Hilversum Sessions ESP-Disk
2 Andrew Hill Compulsion Blue Note

VOCAL

Andy Bey Ain’t Necessarily So 12th St.

DEBUT

No choice

LATIN

No choice

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

1 Miles Davis The Complete On the Corner Sessions Columbia/Legacy
2 Sun Ra Concert for the Comet Kohoutek ESP Disk
3 Flora Purim Butterfly Dreams Milestone/Keepnews Collection

VOCAL

Tierney Sutton On the Other Side Telarc

DEBUT

Sophie Milman Make Someone Happy Linus/Koch

LATIN

Spanish Harlem Orchestra United We Swing Six Degrees

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Ron Wynn (Nashville City Paper, American Songwriter)

NEW RELEASES

1 Terence Blanchard A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina) Blue Note)
2 Herbie Hancock River: The Joni Letters Verve
3 Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Jack DeJohnette My Foolish Heart ECM
4 Dee Dee Bridgewater Red Earth - A Malian Journey DDB/Emarcy
5 Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan Live at MCG MCG
6 Rob Wagner Trio Valid
7 Maria Schneidier Sky Blue Artist Share
8 Jackie Ryan You and the Night and the Music Open Art
9 Charles Mingus Cornell 1964 Blue Note
10 Thelonious Monk Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival MJF/Concord

REISSUES

1 John Coltrane Interplay Prestige
2 Miles Davis The Complete On The Corner Sessions Columbia/Legacy
3 Albert Ayler The Hilversum Session ESP Disk

VOCAL

Dee Dee Bridgewater Red Earth - A Malian Journey DDB/Emarcy

DEBUT

No choice

LATIN

No choice