16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Pat Frisco (WHFR-FM [Dearborn, MI])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Alexander Hawkins, Togetherness Music: For Sixteen Musicians (Intakt)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith, Sacred Ceremonies (TUM)
  4. Matthew Shipp, Codebreaker (TAO Forms)
  5. Barre Phillips-John Butcher-Ståle Liavik Solberg, We Met - And Then (Relative Pitch)
  6. Enrico Rava, Edizione Speciale (ECM)
  7. Nate Wooley-Liudas Mockunas-Barry Guy-Arkadijus Gotesmanas, Nox (NoBusiness -20)
  8. Blue Reality Quartet, Blue Reality Quartet! (Mahakala)
  9. Lucia Martinez-Agusti Fernández-Barry Guy, Bosque De Niebla (Fundacja Sluchaj)
  10. Theo Jörgensmann-Christopher Dell-Christian Ramond-Klaus Kugel, At the Fields Edge (Not Two)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  3. Mujician, 10 10 10 (2010, Cuneiform)

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