16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

David A. Graham (The Atlantic)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  2. Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  4. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  5. Kimbrough (Newvelle)
  6. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
  7. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  8. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Wandersphere (Intakt)
  10. Esperanza Spalding, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (Concord)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

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

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