16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Filipe Freitas (JazzTrail)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Fire!, Defeat (Rune Grammofon)
  3. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball)
  4. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  5. Alexander Hawkins, Togetherness Music: For Sixteen Musicians (Intakt)
  6. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
  7. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  8. Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile, Snark Horse (Pi)
  9. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  10. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)

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