The results are in from Downbeat magazine's 57th Annual Critics' Poll.
And it looks like a happy one for our fearless leader...
Violin Rising Star - #6 Jeff Gauthier
Rising Star Producer - #10 Jeff Gauthier
Producer - #11 Jeff Gauthier
...and his ashram of noisemakers:
Clarinet - #12 Ben Goldberg
Rising Star Clarinet - #3 Ben Goldberg
(UPDATE: Ben will be appearing with bassist Devin Hoff and Scott Amendola at next month's Angel City Jazz Festival. Listen to an NPR interview with Ben here.)
Guitar - #7 Nels Cline
Rising Star Guitar - #8 Nels Cline
(UPDATE: Nels just released a free download with L.A'.s Quiet Orchestra. Go here for a recent interview with Mr. Cline. And check out this recent review of a recent Cline/Tim Berne/Jim Black show at The Stone in NYC.)
Acoustic Bass Rising Star - #8 Todd Sickafoose
(Go here for Todd's upcoming live dates with Ani DiFranco and his group Tiny Resistors. Fuse TV is running Best of Bonarroo Vol. 5, wherin you can catch T-Sick backing Ms. DiFranco on her nasty funk smackdown "Shameless." Worth a place on yer DVR.)
Drums - #5 Matt Wilson
Rising Star Drums - #3 Matt Wilson
(Go here for Matt's current tour schedule.)
Violin - #4 Jenny Scheinman
Violin Rising Star - #1 Jenny Scheinman
(Listen here to the Jenny Scheinman Quartet live at the Village Vanguard.)
Miscellaneous Instrument - #3 Erik Friedlander (Cello)
(UPDATE: Check out this recent interview with Erik from California Chronicle.)
Miscellaneous Instrument - #11 Peggy Lee (Cello)
Record Label - #9 Cryptogramophone
