16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

J.D. Considine (DownBeat, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
  2. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  3. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
  4. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  5. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
  6. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  7. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  8. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)
  9. Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition)
  10. Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression (ECM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  2. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
  3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)

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