16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal, Daily Beast, Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  4. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  5. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)
  6. Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra, Tinctures in Time (Community Music Vol. 1) (Royal Potato Family)
  7. Hank Roberts Sextet, Science of Love (Sunnyside)
  8. Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue, Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (Pi)
  9. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  10. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

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