16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

David R. Adler (freelance)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  2. Kimbrough (Newvelle)
  3. Michael Mayo, Bones (Artistry Music)
  4. Ben LaMar Gay, Open Arms to Open Us (International Anthem)
  5. Caroline Davis, Portals, Volume 1: Mourning (Sunnyside)
  6. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  7. Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, Notes With Attachments (Impulse!)
  8. Gregg Belisle-Chi, Koi: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Relative Pitch)
  9. Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile, Snark Horse (Pi)
  10. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

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