16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

John Chacona (Erie [PA] Times-News, All About Jazz, Postgenre Media, Let's Call This)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  3. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  4. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
  5. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  6. Darius Jones, Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy)
  7. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR) (Pi)
  8. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
  9. Kevin Sun, <3 Bird (Endectomorph)
  10. Diego Rivera, Indigenous (Posi-Tone)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  3. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)

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