16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Larry Appelbaum (JazzTimes, WPFW-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
  2. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  3. Jeff Lederer's Sunwatcher, Eightfold Path (Little(i)Music)
  4. Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble, What to Wear in the Dark (Resilience)
  5. Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The News (ECM)
  6. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  7. Dr. Lonnie Smith, Breathe (Blue Note)
  8. Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America's Musicians' Emergency Fund (Mack Avenue)
  9. Sara Serpa, Intimate Strangers (Biophilia)
  10. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
  2. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  3. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)

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