16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballots 2021 [2]

Bill Brownlee (Plastic Sax, KCUR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
  2. Mathias Eick, When We Leave (ECM)
  3. Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, Notes With Attachments (Impulse!)
  4. Nala Sinephro, Space 1.8 (Warp)
  5. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  6. Evan Parker Quartet, All Knavery and Collusion (Cadillac)
  7. Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble, Now (International Anthem)
  8. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  9. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  10. Angel Bat Dawid, Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1 Doxology (International Anthem)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)

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Greg Bryant (WBGO Jazz After Hours and Jazz United Podcast)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dr. Lonnie Smith, Breathe (Blue Note)
  2. Dara Tucker, Dreams of Waking: Music for a Better World (Green Hill)
  3. Nicholas Payton, Smoke Sessions (Smoke Sessions)
  4. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  5. Jakob Bro-Arve Henriksen-Jorge Rossy, Uma Elmo (ECM)
  6. The Baylor Project, Generations (Be a Light)
  7. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
  8. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  9. Makaya McCraven, Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)
  10. Marc Cary, Life Lessons (Sessionheads United)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

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

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Robert Bush (New York City Jazz Record, San Diego Reader, San Diego Troubadour)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  2. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  5. Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition)
  6. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern)
  7. Pedro Melo Alves, In Igma (Clean Feed -20)
  8. Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Long Tall Sunshine (Not Two)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
  10. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)

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Dan Buskirk (WPRB [Princeton], Fun2Know Podcast)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity)
  2. Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble, Now (International Anthem)
  3. Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)
  4. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball)
  5. Sonic Liberation Front, Moon Rust Red Streets (High Two)
  6. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
  7. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  8. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  9. Maria Grand, Reciprocity (Biophilia)
  10. Linda Fredriksson, Juniper (We Jazz)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings (1962-65, Omnivore)
  2. Jeanne Lee, Conspiracy (1975, Moved-by-Sound)
  3. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)

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Dave Cantor (various publications)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ron Carter-Jack DeJohnette-Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Skyline (5 Passion)
  2. Makaya McCraven, Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)
  3. Allison Miller & Jane Ira Bloom, Tues Days (Outline)
  4. Bill Charlap Trio, Street of Dreams (Blue Note)
  5. Mario Pavone Dialect Trio + 1, Blue Vertical (Out of Your Head)
  6. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  7. Hedvig Mollestad, Tempest Revisited (Rune Grammofon)
  8. Francisco Mela, M.P.T. Trio: Volume 1 (577)
  9. Amaro Freitas, Sankofa (Far Out)
  10. Ahmed, Nights on Saturn (Communication) (Astral Spirits)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Bill Evans, Behind the Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings (Resonance)

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John Chacona (Erie [PA] Times-News, All About Jazz, Postgenre Media, Let's Call This)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  3. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  4. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
  5. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  6. Darius Jones, Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy)
  7. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR) (Pi)
  8. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
  9. Kevin Sun, <3 Bird (Endectomorph)
  10. Diego Rivera, Indigenous (Posi-Tone)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  3. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)

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Brad Cohan (JazzTimes, Bandcamp Daily)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Hooker, Big Moon (Org Music)
  2. Jeremiah Cymerman, Citadels & Sanctuaries (5049)
  3. Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)
  4. Mike Pride, I Hate Work (RareNoise)
  5. Darius Jones, Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy)
  6. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  7. The Flying Luttenbachers, Negative Infinity (UgExplode)
  8. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
  9. Amirtha Kidambi & Matteo Liberatore, Neutral Love (Astral Editions)
  10. Roscoe Mitchell-Sandy Ewen-Damon Smith-Weasel Walter, A Railroad Spike Forms the Voice (Balance Point Acoustics)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. New Life, Visions of the Third Eye (1979, Early Future)
  2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)

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Aaron Cohen (Chicago Reader, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Code of Being (Intakt)
  3. Darius Jones, Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy)
  4. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  5. Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Mandatory Reality (Eremite)
  6. Matthew Shipp, Codebreaker (TAO Forms)
  7. Ben Allison, Moments Inside (Sonic Camera)
  8. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  9. Charles Rumback, Seven Bridges (Astral Spirits)
  10. Gustavo Cortiñas, Desafío Candente (Woolgathering)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66 (Mosaic)
  2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  3. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)

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Troy Collins (Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  4. Erik Friedlander, Sentinel (Skipstone -20)
  5. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  6. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)
  7. John Zorn, New Masada Quartet (Tzadik)
  8. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  9. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
  10. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
  3. Paul Bley, Touching & Blood Revisited (1965, Ezz-thetics)

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Thomas Conrad (JazzTimes, Stereophile, New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. David Sanford Big Band Featuring Hugh Ragin, A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf Music)
  3. Francesco Cafiso, Irene of Boston: Conversation Avec Corto Maltese (EFLAT -20)
  4. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
  5. Bill Charlap Trio, Street of Dreams (Blue Note)
  6. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  7. Will Vinson-Gilad Hekselman-Antonio Sanchez, Trio Grande (Whirlwind -20)
  8. Jakob Bro-Arve Henriksen-Jorge Rossy, Uma Elmo (ECM)
  9. Marcin Wasilewski Trio, En Attendant (ECM)
  10. Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)

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. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)

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J.D. Considine (DownBeat, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
  2. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  3. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
  4. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  5. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
  6. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  7. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  8. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)
  9. Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition)
  10. Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression (ECM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  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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Mark Corroto (All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
  2. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Matthew Shipp, Codebreaker (TAO Forms)
  4. Muriel Grossmann, Union (RR Gems)
  5. Friends & Neighbors, The Earth Is # (Clean Feed)
  6. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith, Sacred Ceremonies (TUM)
  8. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball)
  9. Mario Pavone Dialect Trio + 1, Blue Vertical (Out of Your Head)
  10. Il Sogno, Graduation (AUAND/Gotta Let It Out)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  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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Michael Coyle (WRCU, Colgate University)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joe Fiedler's "Open Sesame", Fuzzy and Blue (Multiphonics)
  2. Rich Halley-Dan Clucas-Clyde Reed-Carson Halley, Boomslang (Pine Eagle)
  3. Helen Sung, Quartet + (Sunnyside)
  4. Joel Frahm, The Bright Side (Anzic)
  5. Yoko Miwa Trio, Songs of Joy (Ubuntu Music)
  6. Charlie Ballantine, Reflections/Introspection: The Music of Thelonious Monk (Green Mind)
  7. Simon Moullier Trio, Countdown (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  8. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  9. Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)
  10. Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Joe Henderson, The Complete Joe Henderson Blue Note Studio Sessions (1963-66, Mosaic)
  2. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
  3. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

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Raul da Gama (JazzDaGama, The WholeNote Magazine, Hot House Jazz, LatinJazzNet, World Music Report, That Canadian Magazine)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Anthony Braxton, 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12)
  2. Claire Chase, Density 2036 (2016-2017) (Corbett vs Dempsey)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  4. Masabumi Kikuchi, Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording (Red Hook)
  5. Mulo Francel, Mountain Melody (GLM)
  6. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  7. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Moon on the Lake (Libra)
  8. Denny Zeitlin & George Marsh, Telepathy (Sunnyside)
  9. Yelena Eckemoff, Adventures of the Wildflower (L&H Production)
  10. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66 (Mosaic)
  2. Bill Evans, Live at Ronnie Scott's (1968, Resonance -20)
  3. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)

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Francis Davis (Erstwhile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Sanford Big Band Featuring Hugh Ragin, A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf Music)
  2. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  3. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  4. Theo Bleckmann and the Westerlies, This Land (Westerlies Music)
  5. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  6. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  8. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
  9. Samara Joy, Samara Joy (Whirlwind)
  10. Unscientific Italians, Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol. 1 (Hora)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
  3. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)

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Anthony Dean-Harris (KRTU San Antonio, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Esperanza Spalding, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (Concord)
  2. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  3. Nate Smith, Kinfolk 2: See the Birds (Edition)
  4. Portico Quartet, Monument (Gondwana)
  5. BADBADNOTGOOD, Talk Memory (XL/Innovative Leisure)
  6. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  7. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  8. BIGYUKI, Neon Chapter (Universal)
  9. Kiefer, Then There's Love Around (Stones Throw)
  10. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)

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Steve Dollar (Flamingo)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. Darius Jones, Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy)
  4. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Whit Dickey-William Parker-Matthew Shipp, Village Mothership (TAO Forms)
  6. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  7. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)
  8. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Standards) 2020 (New Braxton House)
  9. David Sanford Big Band Featuring Hugh Ragin, A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf Music)
  10. Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The News (ECM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  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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Laurence Donohue-Greene (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  2. Frank Kimbrough, Ancestors (Sunnyside)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  4. Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression (ECM)
  5. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  6. Fire!, Defeat (Rune Grammofon)
  7. Steph Richards With Joshua White, Zephyr (Relative Pitch)
  8. Punkt. Vrt. Plastik [Kaja Draksler/Petter Eldh/Christian Lillinger], Somit (Intakt)
  9. Bugpowder, Cage Tennis (Trytone)
  10. Mankwe Ndosi and Body MemOri, Felt/not said (Auspice NOW)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. Nathan Davis With Georges Arvanitas Trio, Live in Paris: The ORTF Recordings 1966/67 (Sam)
  3. Mujician, 10 10 10 (2010, Cuneiform)

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Troy Dostert (All About Jazz, Free Jazz Collective)

NEW RELEASES

  1. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
  2. Wild Up, Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine (New Amsterdam)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Code of Being (Intakt)
  4. Ivo Perelman, Brass and Ivory Tales (Fundacja Sluchaj)
  5. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  6. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being the Up and Down (Intakt)
  7. Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Ole Morten Vågan, Plastic Wave (Odin)
  8. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
  10. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

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Alain Drouot (Downbeat, Citizenjazz.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tim Berne-Chris Speed-Reid Anderson-Dave King, Broken Shadows (Intakt)
  2. Lina Allemano Four, Vegetables (Lumo)
  3. Benoît Delbecq, The Weight of Light (Pyroclastic)
  4. Okkyung Lee, Na-Reul (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  5. Susie Ibarra, Talking Gong (New Focus)
  6. Sana Nagano, Smashing Humans (577)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  8. Natsuki Tamura, Koki Solo (Libra)
  9. Aki Takase-Christian Weber-Michael Griener, Auge (Intakt)
  10. Cowboys & Frenchmen, Our Highway (Outside In Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  3. Hideto Kanai & King's Roar, Ode to Birds (1975, Three Blind Mice/Craftman)

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