Complete Critics Poll Results!

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To see the complete Critics Poll results, just click on the August 2023 issue cover image below.

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With 1,251 listings, there is much to explore and many great artists to discover. This year’s poll provides a wonderful snapshot of the jazz scene today.



  • Emily_Remler_-_Photo_by_Brian_McMillen_%284%29_copy_2.jpg

    “She said, ‘A lot of people are going to try and stop you,’” Sheryl Bailey recalls of the advice she received from jazz guitarist Emily Remler (1957–’90). “‘They’re going to say you slept with somebody, you’re a dyke, you’re this and that and the other. Don’t listen to them, and just keep playing.’”

  • Ted_Nash_Alexa_Tarantino_by_Gilberto_Tadday_copy.jpg

    As Ted Nash, left, departs the alto saxophone chair for LCJO, Alexa Tarantino steps in as the band’s first female full-time member.

  • Larry_Appelbaum_with_Wayne_Shorter_by_Ken_Kimery_from_2012_copy.jpg

    Larry Appelbaum with Wayne Shorter in 2012.

  • DCGY-Steve_Coleman_-_Graz%2C_Austria_-_2024-DCGY-sans_titre-_DGY6606-Avec_accentuation-Bruit_copy_2.jpg

    “If you don’t keep learning, your mind slows down,” Coleman says. “Use it or lose it.”

  • Coltrane_John_008_copy_2.jpg

    “This is one of the great gifts that Coltrane gave us — he gave us a key to the cosmos in this recording,” says John McLaughlin.


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