Downbeat Magazine has released its 55th Annual Critics' Poll and quite a few Crypto artists made impressive showings, including our own perpetually harrassed (yet always Zen calm) Fearless Leader Jeff Gauthier.
#4 Record Label - Cryptogramophone with 58 votes
#6 Rising Star Producer - Jeff Gauthier with 22 votes
#12 Violin - Jeff Gauthier with 14 votes
#1 Rising Star Violin - Jenny Scheinman with 92 votes
#4 Violin - Jenny Scheinman with 68 votes
#5 Rising Star Guitar - Nels Cline with 47 votes
#5 Miscellaneous Instrument - Erik Friedlander ('cello) with 39 votes
#6 Guitar - Nels Cline with 49 votes
#8 Rising Star Drums - Scott Amendola with 27 votes
#11 Acoustic Piano - Myra Melford with 27 votes
#12 Clarinet - Ben Goldberg with 20 votes
#12 Rising Star Jazz Group - Myra Melford and Be Bread with 11 votes
Other artists who received votes and play on Cryptogramophone CDs are Bill Frisell, Cuong Vu and Brad Mehldau.
