16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Jon Garelick (Boston Globe, The Arts Fuse, Jazziz, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  2. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  3. Kevin Sun, <3 Bird (Endectomorph)
  4. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
  5. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern)
  6. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  7. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  8. Steph Richards With Joshua White, Zephyr (Relative Pitch)
  9. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
  10. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
  2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)

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