Additional notes on 2019—part two

I think we can shut down this ongoing look back with today’s post—it’s all making me feel rather old. NPR Music posted the results of the annual Jazz Critics Poll organized by Francis Davis earlier today. You can find the full package here. I participated in the poll and my ballot is below. As usual, there is some overlap, and my enthusiasm for Anna Webber’s stunning Clockwise led me being asked to write a short blurb for the NPR poll.

Best albums:

1. Anna Webber, Clockwise (Pi)

2. Petter Eldh, Koma Saxo (We Jazz)

3. أحمد [Ahmed], Super Majnoon [East Meets West] (Otoroku)

4. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis (Constellation)

5. Kris Davis, Diatom Ribbons (Pyroclastic)

6. JD Allen, Barracoon (Savant)

7. Fredrik Ljungkvist Trio, Atlantis (Moserobie)

8. Dustin Laurenzi, Snaketime: the Music of Moondog (Astral Spirits/Feeding Tube)

9. Art Ensemble of Chicago, We are on the Edge: a 50th Anniversary Celebration (Pi)

10. Eve Risser, Après un Rêve (Clean Feed)

Best Reissues:

1. Stan Getz, Getz at the Gate (Verve)

2. Louis Moholo Octet, Spirits Rejoice! (Otoroku)

3. Eric Dolphy, Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance)

Vocal:

No vote

Latin Record:

Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos, Cristal (Sunnyside)

Debut:

Petter Eldh, Koma Saxo (We Jazz)

Today’s playlist:

Ondrej Adámek, Sinuous Voices (Aeon)

Florian Weber, Lucent Waters (ECM)

Kelly Moran, Ultraviolet (Warp)

Park Jiha, Communion (Glitterbeat)

Puce Mary, The Drought (PAN)