16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Kira Grunenberg (DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record, No Depression, NPR, American Songwriter, Throw the Dice and Play Nice)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  2. Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid)
  3. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
  4. Rachel Eckroth, The Garden (Rainy Days)
  5. Young Pilgrims, We're Young Pilgrims (Stoney Lane)
  6. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  7. Nubiyan Twist, Freedom Fables (Strut)
  8. Charlotte Greve, Sediments We Move (New Amsterdam)
  9. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  10. Lady Blackbird, Black Acid Soul (BMG)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner, Expansions (1968, Blue Note)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

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