{"id":7209,"date":"2015-12-30T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T01:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7209"},"modified":"2015-12-30T17:14:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T01:14:05","slug":"year-end-poll-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/12\/year-end-poll-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Year-end Poll Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/th-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"th\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/th-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/th-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/th-1-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Again this year, I swore off voting in what has become an epidemic of jazz popularity contests, also known as critics polls, with one exception. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to be able to say no to the persuasive Francis Davis, who conducts the National Public Radio Jazz Critics Poll. How I voted on the day I succumbed doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily reflect how I might have voted a day&#8212;or a week&#8212;sooner or later. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my ballot:<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW RELEASES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tom Harrell, <em>First Impressions<\/em><\/strong> (HighNote)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charles Lloyd, <em>Wild Man Dance<\/em><\/strong> (Blue Note)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maria Schneider, <em>The Thompson Fields<\/em><\/strong> (ArtistShare)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jack DeJohnette, <em>Made in Chicago<\/em><\/strong> (ECM)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gary McFarland Legacy Ensemble, <em>Circulation: The Music of Gary McFarland<\/em><\/strong> (Planet Arts)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antonio Sanchez, <em>Three Times Three<\/em><\/strong> (CAM Jazz)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carla Bley-Steve Swallow-Andy Sheppard, <em>Trios<\/em><\/strong> (ECM)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Katie Theroux, <em>Introducing Katie Thiroux<\/em><\/strong> (BassKat)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bill Kirchner, <em>An Evening of Indigos<\/em><\/strong> (Jazzheads)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matthew Shipp, <em>To Duke<\/em><\/strong> (RogueArt)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8221;\u00a0REISSUES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>John Coltrane, <em>A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters<\/em><\/strong> (Impulse!)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Erroll Garner, <em>The Complete Concert by the Sea<\/em><\/strong> (Columbia\/Legacy)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lars Gullin, <em>Portrait of the Legendary Baritone Saxophonist<\/em><\/strong> (Fresh Sound)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8221;\u00a0VOCAL<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ernestine Anderson, <em>Swings the Penthouse<\/em><\/strong> (HighNote)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8221;\u00a0DEBUT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Katie Theroux, <em>Introducing Katie Thiroux<\/em><\/strong> (BassKat)<\/li>\n<li><strong> Logan Strosahl, Up Go We (Sunnyside)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8221;\u00a0LATIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Paquito D&#8217;Rivera &amp; Quinteto Cimarron, <em>Aires Tropicales<\/em><\/strong> (Sunnyside)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To see complete results of the NPR poll, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ablogsupreme\/2015\/12\/21\/460527087\/the-2015-npr-music-jazz-critics-poll\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again this year, I swore off voting in what has become an epidemic of jazz popularity contests, also known as critics polls, with one exception. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem to be able to say no to the persuasive Francis Davis, who conducts the National Public Radio Jazz Critics Poll. How I voted on the day I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}