16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Karl Ackermann (All About Jazz, Chicago Jazz Magazine)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  2. Allen Lowe, A Love Supine: Ascension Into the Maelstrom (ESP Disk)
  3. Ill Considered, Liminal Space (New Soil)
  4. Matthew Shipp, Codebreaker (TAO Forms)
  5. Johan Lindström Septett, On the Asylum (Moserobie)
  6. Marc Johnson, Overpass (ECM)
  7. Pearring Sound, Socially Distanced Duos (self-released)
  8. Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpet (TUM)
  9. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
  10. Michael Monhart-Michael Bisio-Ben Chadabe, MMBC Terma (self-released)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Billy Bang, Lucky Man (2008, BBE)
  2. Eberhard Weber, Once Upon a Time: Live in Avignon (1994, ECM)
  3. Roberto Miranda's Home Music Ensemble, Live at Bing Theatre: Los Angeles, 1985 (Dark Tree)

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