16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Ted Gioia (The History of Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  2. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  3. Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression (ECM)
  4. Theo Bleckmann and the Westerlies, This Land (Westerlies Music)
  5. Pasquale Grasso, Solo Ballads (Sony Masterworks)
  6. Nik Bärtsch, Entendre (ECM)
  7. Ethan Iverson & Umbria Jazz Orchestra, Bud Powell in the 21st Century (Sunnyside)
  8. Masabumi Kikuchi, Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording (Red Hook)
  9. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  10. Stephan Micus, Winter's End (ECM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Bill Evans Trio, On a Friday Evening (1975, Craft)
  3. Bola Sete, Samba in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Tompkins Square)

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