16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Stuart Broomer (Free Jazz Collective, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, Wholenote)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Natural Information Society & Evan Parker, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Aguirre/Eremite)
  2. Ahmed, Nights on Saturn (Communication) (Astral Spirits)
  3. Anthony Braxton, 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12)
  4. Nate Wooley, Mutual Aid Music (Pleasure of the Text)
  5. Joëlle Léandre-Pauline Oliveros-George Lewis, Play as You Go (Trost)
  6. Wadada Leo Smith-Henry Kaiser-Alex Varty, Pacifica Koral Reef (577 -22)
  7. Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Let the Free Be Men (Trost)
  8. Disquiet [Christof Kurzmann-Sofia Jernberg-Joe Williamson-Mats Brandlmayr], Disquiet (Trost)
  9. Iain Sinclair & London Experimental Ensemble, Dark Before Dark (577)
  10. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Code of Being (Intakt)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Cecil Taylor Ensemble, Göttingen (1990, Fundacja Sluchaj)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)

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