16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Michael J. Agovino (The Village Voice, Pitchfork, Esquire, L.A. Review of Books)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
  2. Makaya McCraven, Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)
  3. Nicholas Payton, Smoke Sessions (Smoke Sessions)
  4. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  5. Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition)
  6. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith, Sacred Ceremonies (TUM)
  8. Harold Mabern, Mabern Plays Coltrane (Smoke Sessions)
  9. Dave Liebman Expansions, Selflessness: The Music of John Coltrane (Dot Time)
  10. Craig Taborn, 60 X Sixty (Pyroclastic)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  2. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)
  3. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)

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