16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Peter Margasak (DownBeat, The Wire, Chamber Music, The Quietus, Bandcamp Daily)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jeff Parker, Forfolks (International Anthem)
  2. Punkt. Vrt. Plastik [Kaja Draksler/Petter Eldh/Christian Lillinger], Somit (Intakt)
  3. Natural Information Society & Evan Parker, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Aguirre/Eremite)
  4. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  5. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  6. Chris Pattishall, Zodiac (self-released)
  7. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)
  8. Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, (Exit) Knarr (Odin)
  9. Ahmed, Nights on Saturn (Communication) (Astral Spirits)
  10. Irène Schweizer & Hamid Drake, Celebration (Intakt)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  3. Tom Prehn, Centrifuga & Sohlverv (1964, Corbett vs. Dempsey)

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