16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Michael Toland (The Big Takeover)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tim Berne-Chris Speed-Reid Anderson-Dave King, Broken Shadows (Intakt)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. Ghost Rhythms, Spectral Music (Cuneiform)
  4. Marc Johnson, Overpass (ECM)
  5. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
  6. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  7. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  8. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
  9. Benito Gonzalez, Sing to the World (Rainy Days)
  10. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  2. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  3. Michael Gregory Jackson, Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, self-released -20)

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