16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Eugene Holley, Jr. (DownBeat, Hot House, Publishers Weekly)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  2. The Cookers, Look Out! (Gearbox)
  3. Ralph Peterson, Raise Up Off Me (Onyx Music)
  4. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern)
  5. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
  6. Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!)
  7. Ron Carter-Jack DeJohnette-Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Skyline (5 Passion)
  8. Matthew Shipp, Codebreaker (TAO Forms)
  9. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  10. Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber, Angels Over Oakanda (Avant Groidd)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

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