16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Shannon Ali (Shannon J. Effinger) (New York Times, The Washington Post, Pitchfork, NPR Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Jeremy Pelt, Griot: This Is Important! (HighNote)
  3. Jamire Williams, But Only After You Have Suffered (International Anthem)
  4. Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!)
  5. Matthew Stevens, Pittsburgh (Whirlwind)
  6. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die Live (International Anthem)
  7. Terence Blanchard, Absence (Blue Note)
  8. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  9. Abdullah Ibrahim, Solotude: My Journey, My Vision (Gearbox)
  10. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
  2. Abbey Lincoln, It's Magic (1958, Riverside)
  3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)

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