16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Shaun Brady (Philadelphia Inquirer, JazzTimes, Tidal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)
  2. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  3. William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity)
  4. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  6. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Standards) 2020 (New Braxton House)
  7. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
  8. Orrin Evans, The Magic of Now (Smoke Sessions)
  9. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  10. Maurice Louca, Saet El Hazz (The Luck Hour) (Sub Rosa/Northern Spy)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
  3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)

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