16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

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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