16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Troy Collins (Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  4. Erik Friedlander, Sentinel (Skipstone -20)
  5. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  6. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)
  7. John Zorn, New Masada Quartet (Tzadik)
  8. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  9. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
  10. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
  3. Paul Bley, Touching & Blood Revisited (1965, Ezz-thetics)

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