Rus Perry’s top Jazz selections for the Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll
By WTJU
Jazz at 100 Now! co-host Russell Perry has been asked to contribute to the mid-year edition of the Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll, which has been published in The Arts Fuse. This is the leading jazz poll, combining the choices of nearly 200 jazz writers and broadcasters.
Rus listens to around 700 new releases each year and publishes his thoughts on New Jazz Releases each Monday morning on WTJU’s website. Pictured above is the James Brandon Lewis Quartet.
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Below are Rus’s choices for the best releases so far this year:
New Jazz Albums
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet – Omni (Intakt Records)
- Melissa Aldana – Filin (Blue Note)
- Tomeka Reid Quartet – Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out Of Your Head Records)
- Eliane Elias – Ao Vivo (Candid Records)
- Ben Wolfe – Any Time After Now (Resident Arts Records)
- Billy Childs – Triumvirate (Mack Avenue Records)
- Bobby Sanabria & Multiverse Big Band – Arsenio And Beyond: Live At The Bronx Music Hall (Jazzheads)
- Walter Smith III – Twio, Vol. 2 (Blue Note)
- Ben Rosenblum’s Nebula Project – The Longest Way Round (One Trick Dog Records)
- Craig Taborn – Dream Archives (ECM)
Rara Avis (historical releases or reissues from at least 10 years ago)
- Kenny Barron – Ray Drummond – Ben Riley – Live in Brecon: So Many Lovely Things (Elemental Music)
- McCoy Tyner – The Seeker (Red Records)
- Joe Henderson – Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase (Resonance Record()
- Roy Hargrove – Bern (Time Traveler Recordings)
- Woody Shaw – Love Dance (Time Traveler Recordings)
