16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Dan Bilawsky (All About Jazz, JazzTimes, New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nadje Noordhuis, Gullfoss (Little Mystery)
  2. Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows, Architecture of Storms (SoundSpore)
  3. Dan McCarthy, A Place Where We Once Lived (self-released)
  4. Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)
  5. Simon Moullier Trio, Countdown (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  6. Steven Feifke Big Band, Kinetic (Outside In Music)
  7. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  8. JD Allen, Queen City (Savant)
  9. Mariel Bildsten, Backbone (Outside In Music -20)
  10. Scott DuBois, Summer Water (Sunnyside)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

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