16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

George Grella (Brooklyn Rail, Red Hook Star-Review, Bandcamp, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball)
  2. Vincent Herring, Preaching to the Choir (Smoke Sessions)
  3. Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Wandersphere (Intakt)
  4. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  5. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
  6. Marc Cary, Life Lessons (Sessionheads United)
  7. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  8. Stephanie Nilles, I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag - The White Flag (Sunnyside)
  9. Jane Ira Bloom & Mark Helias, Some Kind of Tomorrow (self-released)
  10. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR) (Pi)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Don Cherry's New Researches, Organic Music Theatre: Festival De Jazz De Chateauvallon 1972 (Blank Forms Editions)
  2. Miles Davis, Merci, Miles! Live at Vienne (1991, Warner/Rhino)
  3. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)

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