16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Steve Feeney (Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, ArtsFuse)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
  4. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  5. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  6. William Parker, Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity)
  7. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
  8. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR) (Pi)
  9. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  10. Yuma Uesaka and Marilyn Crispell, Streams (Not Two)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
  2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  3. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)

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