16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Rob Shepherd (PostGenre Media)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kaidi Tatham, An Insight to All Minds (First Word)
  2. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  3. Natural Information Society & Evan Parker, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Aguirre/Eremite)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
  5. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball)
  6. Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, Notes With Attachments (Impulse!)
  7. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  8. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  9. Terence Blanchard, Absence (Blue Note)
  10. Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Marcos Resende & Index, Marcos Resende & Index (1976, Far Out)
  2. Khan Jamal, Infinity (1982, Jazz Room)
  3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)

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