16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Andrew Gilbert (San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Classical Voice, Bay Area News Group)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Sanford Big Band Featuring Hugh Ragin, A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf Music)
  2. The Cookers, Look Out! (Gearbox)
  3. Remy Le Boeuf's Assembly of Shadows, Architecture of Storms (SoundSpore)
  4. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  5. Larry Ochs-Donald Robinson Duo, A Civil Right (ESP-Disk)
  6. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  7. Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios, Songs From My Father (Whaling City Sound)
  8. Harold Mabern, Mabern Plays Coltrane (Smoke Sessions)
  9. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
  10. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
  2. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)
  3. Harold Land, Westward Bound! (1962-65, Reel-to-Real)

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