16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Chris Barton (Los Angeles Times, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  2. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  3. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die Live (International Anthem)
  4. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
  5. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
  6. Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes, Music for Saxofone and Bass Guitar More Songs (Leaving)
  7. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  8. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
  10. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
  3. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)

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