16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

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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