16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Jackson Sinnenberg (CapitalBop, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  4. Work Money Death, The Space in Which the Uncontrollable Unknown Resides, Can Be the Place From Which Creation Arises (ATA)
  5. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  6. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
  7. Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The News (ECM)
  8. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
  9. R+R=Now, Live (Blue Note)
  10. Aaron Myers, The Pride Album (self-released)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Butch Warren & Freddie Redd, Baltimore Jazz Loft (2013, Bleebop)
  3. Utopic Cities: Progressive Jazz in Belgium 1968-1979 (Sbdan)

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