ON THE COVER

67th ANNUAL CRITICS POLL

• p 28 : Cécile McLorin Salvant
  Jazz Artist, Female Vocalist - The Theater of Cécile McLorin Salvant
  By Phillip Lutz
  The vocalist and composer, who topped two categories in the Critics Poll, discusses her recent collaborations with pianist Sullivan Fortner and bandleader Darcy James Argue, as well as her visual artwork. Praised to the skies, Cécile McLorin Salvant has tried to keep her feet on the ground.

FEATURES

• p 32 : Nina Simone
• Hall Of Fame
  By Geoffrey Himes
  As a child, she was a classical piano prodigy, but when her application to a Philadelphia conservatory, the Curtis Institute, was rejected—because of her race, she always believed—she rebounded by taking a job as a singer in an Atlantic City barroom.
• p 34 : Scott LaFaro
• Hall Of Fame
  By James Hall
  Just 25 years old on July 6, 1961—the date his car veered off a highway in western New York State, killing him and a passenger in a fiery crash—bassist LaFaro already had established himself as a revolutionary instrumentalist.
• p 38 : Wayne Shorter
• Jazz Album of the Year
  By J.D. Considine
  In true Shorter style, the way he talks about the music on Emanon is to talk about other things, because for the saxophonist, the act of composing and improvising is by its very nature random and associative.
• p 39 : John Coltrane
  Historical Album
  By James Hale
• p 40 : Top Jazz Albums
  — 1. Wayne Shorter : Emanon (Blue Note)

  
  — 2. Cécile Mclorin Salvant : The Window (Mack Avenue)

  
  — 3. Ambrose Akinmusire : Origami Harvest (Blue Note)

  
  — 4. Kamasi Washington : Heaven And Earth (Young Turks)

  
  — 5. Andrew Cyrille : Lebroba (Ecm)

  
  — 6. Makaya Mccraven : Universal Beings (International Anthem)

  
  — 7. Branford Marsalis Quartet : The Secret Between The Shadow And The Soul (Okeh / Sony)

  
  — 8. Kenny Barron Quintet : Concentric Circles (Blue Note)

  
  — 9. Christian Mcbride : Christian Mcbride’s New Jawn (Mack Avenue)

  
  — 10. Fred Hersch Trio : Live In Europe (Palmetto)
• p 42 : Fred Hersch Trio
  Jazz Group
  By Matthew Kassel
• p 44 : Top Historical Albums
  — 1. John Coltrane : Both Directions At Once : The Lost Album (Impulse !)
  — 2. Eric Dolphy : Musical Prophet : The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance)
  — 3. The Art Ensemble Of Chicago : The Art Ensemble Of Chicago And Associated Ensembles (Ecm)
  — 4. Betty Carter : The Music Never Stops (Blue Engine)
  — 5. Ornette Coleman : The Atlantic Years (Rhino)
  — 6. Thelonious Monk : Mønk (Gearbox)
  — 7. The Beatles : The White Album (Anniversary Edition)
  — 8. Woody Shaw : Tokyo ’81 (Elemental)
  — 9. Teddy Wilson : Classic Brunswick & Columbia Teddy Wilson Sessions 1934–1942 (Mosaic)
  — 10. Dexter Gordon Quartet : Tokyo 1975 (Elemental)
• p 46 : Shabaka Hutchings
  Rising Star–Jazz Group, Clarinet
  By Dan Ouellette
• p 48 : Sullivan Fortner
  Rising Star–Jazz Artist, Piano
  By Phillip Lutz
• p 49 : Felix Pastorius
  Rising Star–Bass
  By Bill Milkowski
• p 50 : Lauren Sevian
  Rising Star–Baritone Saxophone
  By Stephanie Jones
• p 52 : Natalie Cressman
  Rising Star–Trombone
  By Stephanie Jones
• p 53 : Kit Downes
  Rising Star–Keyboard, Rising Star–Organ
  By Ammar Kalia
• p 54 : Sara Serpa
  Rising Star–Female Vocalist
  By Suzanne Lorge
• p 56 : Complete Critics Poll Results
  • Blues Album
    — 1. Buddy Guy, The Blues Is Alive And Well (RCA)

    
    — 2. Fantastic Negrito, Please Don’t Be Dead (Cooking Vinyl)

    
    — 3. B.B. King Blues Band, The Soul Of The King (Ruf)

    
    — 4. Boz Scaggs, Out Of The Blues (Concord)

    
    — 5. Maria Muldaur, Don’t You Feel My Leg (Last Music Co.)

    
    — 6. Cedric Burnside, Benton County Relic (Single Lock)

    
    — 7. Joe Bonamassa, Redemption (J&R Adventures)

    
    — 8. John Mayall, Nobody Told Me (Forty Below)

    
    — 9. Billy F. Gibbons, The Big Bad Blues (Concord)

    
    — 10. Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio, Something Smells Funky ’Round Here (Alligator)

DEPARTMENTS

• p 8 : First Take
• p 10 : Chords & Discords
• p 13 : The Beat
• p 71 : Reviews
• p 90 : Wadada Leo Smith’s Art-Scores
  – Wadada Leo Smith’s Ankhrasmation Symbolic Language Art-Scores
  By Bill Milkowsk
• p 94 : Pro Session : How To Develop a Motif While Improvising
  By Pete Mccann
• p 96 : Transcription : Jon Irabagon’s Tenor Sax Solo on ’Emotional Physics/The Things’
• p 98 : Toolshed
• p 102 : Jazz On Campus
• p 106 : Blindfold Test : Javon Jackson
  Saxophonist Javon Jackson was tested on the following tracks for the “Blindfold Test” :
  – Ralph Peterson & The Messenger Legacy : “Children Of The Night” from Legacy Alive : Volume 6 At The Sidedoor (Onyx)
  – Branford Marsalis Quartet : “Cianna” from The Secret Between The Shadow And The Soul (OKeh)
  – Marcus Strickland : “Timing” from People Of The Sun (Blue Note)
  – Joey DeFrancesco + The People : “A Change Is Gonna Come” from Project Freedom (Mack Avenue)
  – James Carter : “Playful–Fast (With Swing)” from Caribbean Rhapsody (EmArcy)
  – Melissa Aldana : “Elsewhere” from Visions (Motéma)
  – Eric Alexander : “Hard Blues” from Leap Of Faith (Giant Step Arts)
  – Willie Jones III : “Peace” from My Point Is ... (WJ3)