16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Jim Macnie (DownBeat, TONE Audio, Lament for a Straight Line)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kimbrough (Newvelle)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
  4. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  5. Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile, Snark Horse (Pi)
  6. Arturo O'Farrill, . . . Dreaming in Lions . . . (Blue Note)
  7. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
  8. Tom Rainey Obbligato, Untucked in Hannover (Intakt)
  9. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
  10. Gregg Belisle-Chi, Koi: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Relative Pitch)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings (1962-65, Omnivore)

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