16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
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Ballot 2021

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Phil Freeman (Burning Ambulance, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, Stereogum)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  4. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  5. Ivo Perelman Trio, Garden of Jewels (TAO Forms)
  6. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  7. Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble, Now (International Anthem)
  8. Indaba Is (Brownswood)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith-Douglas R Ewart-Mike Reed, Sun Beans of Shimmering Light (Astral Spirits)
  10. Cameron Graves, Seven (Mack Avenue)

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. Anthony Braxton, Freedom Years (1969-76, Freedom)

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN

 

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