The results of the 76th annual DownBeat Readers Poll have been announced, and topping the list for Jazz Album of the Year is Brad Mehldau's solo CD/DVD Live in Marciac, released earlier this year on Nonesuch Records. Mehldau was also named the year's Best Pianist and is featured in the December issue of the magazine. Joining him among DownBeat readers' favorites are two Nonesuch artists with whom Mehldau has collaborated: Pat Metheny, named Best Guitarist, and Joshua Redman, named Best Tenor Saxophone.

“This is one of the most exciting Readers Polls in decades,” says DownBeat publisher Frank Alkyer. “There is no recording more befitting the title of Jazz Album of the Year than Brad Mehldau’s Live in Marciac. Mehldau was also named Pianist of the Year. He is setting a new standard.”

More the 6,900 DownBeat readers weighed in and cast their votes in this year’s poll. For more information and a complete list of this year’s Readers Poll winners, head to downbeat.com.

Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman, who recently toured the US together, bring their duo show to Europe in November, starting with a performance at the Teatro Central in Sevilla, Spain, on the 11th. Pat Metheny is in Europe now, touring with the Pat Metheny Trio, featuring bassist Larry Grenadier (also of the Brad Mehldau Trio) and drummer Bill Stewart. For more information on both of these tours, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

To pick up a copy of Live in Marciac and peruse the Nonesuch catalogs of Mehldau, Metheny, and Redman, head to the Nonesuch Store. Also in the Nonesuch Store, the reissue of Pat Metheny and Jim Hall's 1999 self-titled duo collaboration, out next week, is available to pre-order, as is a box set of the Brad Mehldau Trio's Art of the Trio records, out on December 6.