Last week Jazzwise announced the results of its annual writers poll with Courtney Pine winning the prestigious No.1 spot, for his album House of Legends, in a strong Top 20 albums list. Such was the high standard across the board this year Jazzwise wanted to share the full list, complete with individual album scores, of New Releases and Reissue/Archive releases in the order they were voted for by the Jazzwise writers. With first place in each writer’s top ten being awarded ten points and the tenth place receiving one point – the results for the entire list are as follows:
Top 20 New Releases
Courtney Pine – House Of Legends – Destin–E – 45
EST – 301 – ACT – 39
John Surman – Saltash Bells – ECM – 33
Christine Tobin – Sailing To Byzantium – Trail Belle Records – 32
John McLaughlin & 4th Dimension – Now Here This – Abstract Logix – 30
Gregory Porter – Be Good – Motéma – 30
Jeremy Pelt – Soul – Highnote – 29
Robert Glasper – Black Radio – Blue Note – 29
Branford Marsalis – 4 Mf’s Playing Tunes – Marsalis Music – 24
Django Bates Belovèd – Confirmation – Lost Marble – 24
Béla Fleck/Marcus Roberts Trio – Across The Imaginary Divide – Rounder – 22
Christian Scott – Christian Atunde Adjuah – Concord – 21
Esperanda Spalding – Radio Music Society – Decca – 19
Phronesis – Walking Dark – Edition – 18
Kurt Elling – On Broadway – Concord – 17
Ahmad Jamal – Blue Moon – Jazz Village – 16
Roller Trio – Roller Trio – F–ire – 16
Simcock/Garland/Sirkis – Lighthouse – ACT – 14
Colin Towns Blue Touch Paper – Stand Well Back – Provocateur – 14
Billy Hart – All Of Our Reasons – ECM – 14
Dave Stapleton – Flight – Edition – 13
Kenny Wheeler – The Long Waiting – CamJazz – 13
Brad Mehldau – Where Do You Start – Nonesuch – 12
Marcus Miller – Renaissance – Dreyfus – 12
Mike Gibbs/NDRbigband/Norma Winstone – Here’s A Song For You – Fuzzy Moon 12
Steve Lehman trio – Dialect Fluorescent – Pi – 11
Brad Mehldau – Ode – Nonesuch – 10
Troyka – Moxxy – Edition – 10
Alexander Hawkins – All There, Ever Out – Babel – 10
Brötzmann / Satoh / Moriyama – Yatagarasu – Not Two – 10
Henry Threadgill Zooid – Tomorrow Sunny/The Revelry – Pi – 10
Sumi Tonooka – Now – ARC – 10
Leon Greening – Cookin’ In Brooklyn – Leopard – 10
Wadada Leo Smith – Ten Freedom Summers – Cuneiform – 9
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