16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Larry Birnbaum (Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Standards) 2020 (New Braxton House)
  2. Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The News (ECM)
  3. Whit Dickey-William Parker-Matthew Shipp, Village Mothership (TAO Forms)
  4. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith, Sacred Ceremonies (TUM)
  6. Ron Carter-Jack DeJohnette-Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Skyline (5 Passion)
  7. Chris Potter Circuits Trio, Sunrise Reprise (Edition)
  8. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
  9. Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition)
  10. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)

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