OPTT (Other Peoples' Top Ten) for 2014

For the first time in a long time, we're not publishing our favorite recordings of the past year. (No external incentive. Come back, Bob Doran!) But we can point you towards plenty of other people who have done--and we can promise you that there's significant overlap between their faves and ours. We can also promise you that past and future RJA guests are well represented on almost every list.

More lists appear on the interwebs every day (expected soon: The [London] Guardian, KQED), and we'll add 'em as we see 'em.

• All About Jazz (Dan McClenaghan | John Kelman)
• AllMusic.com (Matt Collar; scroll down)
• The BBC's Jazz on 3 (Jez Nelson)
• Bird Is the Worm (Dave Sumner)
• Boston Globe (John Garelick)
• Burning Ambulance (Phil Freeman)
• Chicago Reader (Peter Margasak)
• Chicago Tribune (Howard Reich)
• Dark Forces Swing (Hank Shteamer)
• Ted Gioia
• The Jazz Breakfast (Peter Bacon)
• Jazz Chronicles (James Hale)
• Jazz Journalists Association (multiple lists)
• Nextbop/Art of Cool
• New York Times (Nate Chinen | Ben Ratliff)
• NPR (Francis Davis)
• NPR Jazz Critics Poll (survey of 140 jazz writers)
• Ottawa Citizen (Peter Hum)
• PopMatters (Will Layman & John Garratt)
• San Jose Mercury-News (Richard Scheinin)
• Gene Seymour (The Nation, etc.)
• Slate (Fred Kaplan)
• Something Else! (S. Victor Aaron)
• The (London) Telegraph
• Village Voice (David R. Adler)
• Wondering Sound / eMusic