16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Bill Beuttler (Emerson College, Boston Globe)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
  2. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  3. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  4. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  5. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  6. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  7. Esperanza Spalding, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (Concord)
  8. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  9. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  10. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66 (Mosaic)
  2. Erroll Garner, Liberation in Swing: The Octave Records Story & Complete Symphony Hall Concert (1959-73, Mack Avenue)
  3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)

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