16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Aaron Cohen (Chicago Reader, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Code of Being (Intakt)
  3. Darius Jones, Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy)
  4. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  5. Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society, Mandatory Reality (Eremite)
  6. Matthew Shipp, Codebreaker (TAO Forms)
  7. Ben Allison, Moments Inside (Sonic Camera)
  8. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  9. Charles Rumback, Seven Bridges (Astral Spirits)
  10. Gustavo Cortiñas, Desafío Candente (Woolgathering)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66 (Mosaic)
  2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  3. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)

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