2007 Jazz Poll Ballots: P-Z

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