16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Stewart Smith (The Wire, The Quietus, Bandcamp Daily, We Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Anthony Braxton, 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity)
  4. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
  5. Hamid Drake-Elaine Mitchener-William Parker-Orphy Robinson-Pat Thomas, Black Top Presents: Some Good News (Otoroku)
  6. Ahmed, Nights on Saturn (Communication) (Astral Spirits)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  8. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  10. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. Jeanne Lee, Conspiracy (1975, Moved-by-Sound)
  3. Don Cherry's New Researches, Organic Music Theatre: Festival De Jazz De Chateauvallon 1972 (Blank Forms Editions)

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