16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Dave Sumner (Bandcamp, Bird Is the Worm)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
  2. Daniel Carter-Tobias Wilner-Djibril Toure-Federick Ughi, New York United, Volume 2 (577)
  3. Christopher Hoffman, Asp Nimbus (Out of Your Head)
  4. Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Ole Morten Vågan, Plastic Wave (Odin)
  5. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)
  6. La La Lars, La La Lars III (self-released)
  7. Tomoko Omura, Branches, Vol. 2 (Outside In Music)
  8. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  9. Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra, Tinctures in Time (Community Music Vol. 1) (Royal Potato Family)
  10. Rocio Giménez López-Luciana Bass-Fermin Suarez-Rosina Scampino, Reunión En La Granja (Discos ICM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Bheki Mseleku, Beyond the Stars (2003, Tapestry Works)
  2. Billy Bang, Lucky Man (2008, BBE)
  3. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)

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