16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Adam Shatz (London Review of Books)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity)
  2. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  4. David Sanford Big Band Featuring Hugh Ragin, A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf Music)
  5. Tyshawn Sorey & Alarm Will Sound, For George Lewis/Autoschediasms (Cantaloupe)
  6. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
  7. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  8. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  9. Darius Jones, Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy)
  10. Jeff Parker, Forfolks (International Anthem)

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. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

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