16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Bob Weinberg (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)
  3. Blue Reality Quartet, Blue Reality Quartet! (Mahakala)
  4. Dopolarians, The Bond (Mahakala Music)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
  6. George Cables, Too Close for Comfort (HighNote)
  7. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  8. Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid)
  9. Jane Ira Bloom & Mark Helias, Some Kind of Tomorrow (self-released)
  10. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings (1962-65, Omnivore)
  3. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)

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