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Rhapsody's 2011 Jazz Critics' Poll
Individual Ballot
From Ken Waxman
1) Your name and primary affiliation(s) (no more than two, please)
2) Ken Waxman
Jazz Word (www.jazzword.com
3) Your choices for 2011's ten best new releases (albums released between Thanksgiving 2010 and Thanksgiving 2011, give or take), listed in descending order one-through-ten.
1. World Saxophone Quartet Yes We Can Jazzwerkstatt JW 098
2. Gerald Cleaver Uncle June Be It As I See It Fresh Sound New Talent FSNT-375
3. Hubbub Whobub Matchless MRCD 80
4. John Butcher & Gino Robair Apophenia Rastascan BRD 065
5. Daunik Lazro/Benjamin Duboc/Didier Lasserre Pourtant Les Cimes des Arbres Dark Tree DT 01
6. Marc Ducret Tower Vol. 2 Ayler Records AYLCD 119
7. Mural Live at the Rothko Chapel Rothko Chapel Publications No #
8. Connie Crothers/Bill Payne The Stone Set/Conversations New Artists NA 1044 CD
9. Schlippenbach Trio Bauhaus Dessau Intakt CD 183
10. Jamaaladeen Tacuma/Ornette Coleman For the Love of Ornette JazzWerkstatt JW 090
4) Your top-three reissues, again listed in descending order
1) FMP In Rückblick In Retrospect 1969-2010 FMP CD 137 - FMP CD 148
2) Steve Lacy School Days Emanem 5016
3) Sun Ra College Tour Vol. 1 The Complete Nothing Is… ESP Disk4060
5) Your choice for the year's best vocal album
There is none – 99% of so-called vocal jazz is no more than often superior pop music, if that.
6) Your choice for the year's best debut CD
Jaruzelski’s Dream-debut Jazz Gawronski Clean Feed CF 211CD
7) Your choice for the year’s best Latin jazz CD
Agustí Fernández & Joan Saura Vents psi 11.01
N.B.: Why is there a Latin-Jazz category if there isn’t a category for other hyphenated jazz music such as Klezmer-Jazz, Pop-Jazz, Classical-Jazz etc.? An exceptional so-called Latin-Jazz CD should be a good Jazz CD overall. Therefore I have chosen the best 2011 improvised CD played by two Latins – that is residents of Spain.