From our January/February 2013 Year in Review issue, out now. Voting conducted online at JazzTimes.com. Winners appear in bold; runners-up are un-bolded and listed in order of number of votes. Readers were asked to consider artists’ achievements and music, book and film releases dating Nov. 1, 2011 through Nov. 1, 2012.

Best of All

Artist of the Year

Sonny Rollins

Joe Lovano
Esperanza Spalding
Kurt Elling

New Artist

Gregory Porter

Ben Williams
Ambrose Akinmusire
Linda Oh

New Release

Kurt Elling 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project (Concord Jazz)

Pat Metheny Unity Band (Nonesuch)
Brad Mehldau Trio Ode (Nonesuch)
Gregory Porter Be Good (Motéma)

Historical Release

Bill Evans Live at Art D’Lugoff’s Top of the Gate (Resonance)

The Dave Brubeck Quartet Their Last Time Out (Sony Legacy)
Wes Montgomery Echoes of Indiana Avenue (Resonance)
Keith Jarrett/Jan Garbarek/Palle Danielsson/Jon Christensen
Sleeper: Tokyo, April 16, 1979 (ECM)

Best Groups

Acoustic Group

Wayne Shorter Quartet

Branford Marsalis Quartet
Joe Lovano Us Five
Christian McBride & Inside Straight

Contemporary/Electric Group

Pat Metheny Unity Band

Béla Fleck & the Flecktones
Robert Glasper Experiment
Yellowjackets

Big Band

The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra

Maria Schneider Orchestra
Mingus Big Band
Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band

Vocal Group

The Manhattan Transfer

The Four Freshmen
Take 6
New York Voices

Blues Artist

Tedeschi Trucks Band

B.B. King
Gary Clark Jr.
Buddy Guy

Best of the Jazz Industry

Record Label

Concord

Motéma
ECM
Blue Note

Books

The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire by Ted Gioia (Oxford University Press)

Clark: The Autobiography of Clark Terry by Clark Terry, with Gwen Terry (University of California Press)

Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club by Kathy Sloane (Indiana University Press)

Film/Video/TV Series

Treme (HBO)

Syndicated Radio Program

Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz (NPR)

JazzSet With Dee Dee Bridgewater (NPR/WBGO)
The Checkout (with Josh Jackson) (WBGO)
Jazz After Hours (with Jim Wilke) (PRI)

Festival

Newport Jazz Festival

Monterey Jazz Festival
Detroit Jazz Festival
Montreal International Jazz Festival

Nightclub

Village Vanguard

Yoshi’s (Oakland & San Francisco)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Scullers Jazz Club

Best Musicians

Trumpet

Roy Hargrove

Wynton Marsalis
Ambrose Akinmusire
Terence Blanchard

Trombone

Wycliffe Gordon

Steve Turre
Robin Eubanks
Trombone Shorty

Tenor Saxophone

Sonny Rollins

Joe Lovano
Wayne Shorter
Branford Marsalis

Alto Saxophone

Miguel Zenón

Kenny Garrett
Lee Konitz
Rudresh Mahanthappa

Soprano Saxophone

Wayne Shorter

Branford Marsalis
Dave Liebman
Jane Ira Bloom

Baritone Saxophone

Gary Smulyan

James Carter
Ronnie Cuber
Claire Daly

Clarinet

Anat Cohen

Paquito D’Rivera
Ken Peplowski
Don Byron

Flute

Nicole Mitchell

Hubert Laws
Dave Valentin
Henry Threadgill

Violin

Regina Carter

Jean-Luc Ponty
Sara Caswell
Jenny Scheinman

Piano

Herbie Hancock

Chick Corea
Brad Mehldau
Keith Jarrett

Electronic Keyboards

Chick Corea

Herbie Hancock
Craig Taborn
John Medeski

Organ

Joey DeFrancesco

Dr. Lonnie Smith
Larry Goldings
Gary Versace

Guitar

Pat Metheny

Bill Frisell
Kurt Rosenwinkel
Russell Malone

Acoustic Bass

Christian McBride

Ron Carter
John Patitucci
Esperanza Spalding

Electric Bass

Marcus Miller

Stanley Clarke
Esperanza Spalding
Victor Wooten

Vibes

Gary Burton

Stefon Harris
Joe Locke
Warren Wolf

Drums

Jack DeJohnette

Roy Haynes
Jeff Hamilton
Brian Blade

Percussion

Poncho Sanchez

Bobby Sanabria
Airto Moreira
Giovanni Hidalgo

Male Vocalist

Kurt Elling

Gregory Porter
Sachal Vasandani
Mark Murphy

Female Vocalist

Diana Krall

Esperanza Spalding
Gretchen Parlato
Dee Dee Bridgewater

Miscellaneous Instruments (banjo, harmonica, cello, oud, et al.)
[4 Winners]

Béla Fleck (banjo)
Toots Thielemans (harmonica)
Steve Turre (conch shells)
Howard Levy (harmonica)

Arranger

John Clayton

Maria Schneider
Darcy James Argue
John Hollenbeck