16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Troy Dostert (All About Jazz, Free Jazz Collective)

NEW RELEASES

  1. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
  2. Wild Up, Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine (New Amsterdam)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Code of Being (Intakt)
  4. Ivo Perelman, Brass and Ivory Tales (Fundacja Sluchaj)
  5. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  6. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being the Up and Down (Intakt)
  7. Trondheim Jazz Orchestra & Ole Morten Vågan, Plastic Wave (Odin)
  8. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
  10. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

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