WEMU Listener Music Poll Winners of 2006

Jazz Album of the Year

  1. Hot Club Of Detroit, Hot Club Of Detroit (Mack Avenue)
  2. Dirty Dozen Brass Band, What’s Going On (Shout Factory)
  3. Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jungle Soul (Palmetto)
  4. Regina Carter, I’ll Be Seeing You: A Sentimental Journey (Verve)
  5. Pat Martino, Remember – A Tribute To Wes Montgomery (Blue Note)
  6. Kenny Garrett, Beyond the Wall (Nonesuch)
  7. Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Non-cognitive Aspects Of The City - Live At Iridium (Pi)
  8. Medeski/Scofield/Martin/Wood, Out Louder (Indirecto)

Jazz Reissue of the Year

  1. Cannonball Adderley, Why Am I Treated So Bad? (Capitol)
  2. Charles Mingus, At UCLA (Sue Mingus Music)
  3. Jimmy McGriff, Big Band Tribute To Count Basie (Blue Note)
  4. Lee Morgan, City Lights (Blue Note)
  5. Grant Green, Live At Club Mozambique (Blue Note)
  6. Gil Evans, The Complete Pacific Jazz Recordings (Blue Note)
  7. Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce, Complete Jazz Lab Studio Sessions #2 (Lone Hill)
  8. Booker Ervin, Tex Book Tenor (Blue Note)

Jazz Box Set of the Year

  1. John Coltrane, Fearless Leader (Prestige)
  2. Miles Davis, The Legendary Quintet Sessions (Prestige)
  3. Fats Waller, If You Have To Ask, You Ain’t Got It (Columbia Legacy)
  4. Sonny Stitt, Stitt’s Bits (Prestige)
  5. Weather Report, Forecast: Tomorrow (Columbia Legacy)

Blues Album of the Year

  1. Charlie Musselwhite, Delta Hardware (Real World)
  2. Dr. John, Mercernary (Blue Note)
  3. Mr. B/Bob Seeley, Back to Back (Megawave)
  4. Elvis Costello/Allan Toussaint, The River In Reverse (Verve Forecast)
  5. Irma Thomas, After The Rain (Rounder)
  6. Duke Robillard, Guitar Groove-A-Rama (Stony Plain)
  7. James Hunter, People Gonna Talk (Rounder)
  8. Catherine Russell, Cat (World Village)

Blues Reissue of the Year

  1. Ray Charles, Complete Recordings (Swingtime/Downbeat/Tuff City)
  2. Nina Simone, Nina Simone Sings The Blues (RCA Legacy)
  3. Professor Longhair, Rock & Roll Gumbo (Sunnyside)
  4. Lou Rawls, Black & Blue/Tobacco Road (Capitol)
  5. Various Artists, New Orleans Will Rise Again (Tuff City)
  6. James Brown, The Federal Years — Vol. One (Hip-oSelect.com)
  7. Guitar Shorty, The Long & Short Of It (Shout! Factory)
  8. Lou Rawls, The Best Of Lou Rawls: The Jazz & Blues Sessions (Capitol)

World Album of the Year

  1. Ray Barretto, Standards Rican-Ditioned (Zoho)
  2. Jane Bunnett, Radio Guantanamo, Guantanamo Blues Project Vol. 1 (Blue Note)
  3. Tumbao Bravo, Amigos: From Our Hands (PKO)
  4. Brian Lynch-Eddie Palmieri Project, Simpatico (Artist Share)
  5. NOMO, New Tones (Ubiquity)
  6. Duduka Da Fonseca, Samba Jazz In Black & White (Zoho)
  7. Ray Mantilla, Good Vibrations (Savant)
  8. Nilson Matta & Friends, Walking With My Bass (Blue Toucan Music)