16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Bret Saunders (Denver Post, KBCO-FM [Denver])

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  3. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
  4. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  5. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Standards) 2020 (New Braxton House)
  6. Whit Dickey-William Parker-Matthew Shipp, Village Mothership (TAO Forms)
  7. Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile, Snark Horse (Pi)
  8. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  9. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  10. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
  2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  3. Bola Sete, Samba in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Tompkins Square)

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