16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Francis Davis (Erstwhile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Sanford Big Band Featuring Hugh Ragin, A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf Music)
  2. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  3. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  4. Theo Bleckmann and the Westerlies, This Land (Westerlies Music)
  5. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  6. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  7. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  8. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
  9. Samara Joy, Samara Joy (Whirlwind)
  10. Unscientific Italians, Play the Music of Bill Frisell Vol. 1 (Hora)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
  3. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)

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