Peter Margasak S Favorite Jazz Albums Of 2017

This morning NPR Music published the results of the annual Jazz Critics Poll organized by Francis Davis—it’s been hosted by NPR Music for the past five years, but it started in 2006 at the Village Voice. Though only one album from my personal top ten landed in the upper echelons of the poll, I can heartily recommend all of the consensus picks, especially the new albums by Vijay Iyer, Craig Taborn, Nicole Mitchell, and Roscoe Mitchell. You can find the entire list here.

  Best reissues:
  1. Various artists, Classic Savoy Be-Bop Sessions 1945-49 (Mosaic)
  2.	Ornette Coleman, Ornette at 12/Crisis (Real Gone)
  3.	Rüdiger Carl Inc., King Alcohol (New Version) (Corbett vs. Dempsey)

  Miles Okazaki, Trickster (Pi)
  Charles Lloyd New Quartet, Passin’ Thru (Blue Note)
  Malija, Instinct (Edition)
  Craig Taborn, Daylight Ghosts (ECM)
  Jen Shyu, Song of Silver Geese (Pi)