16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

David Brent Johnson (Jazz Director, Night Lights host, WFIU [Bloomington, IN])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Terence Blanchard, Absence (Blue Note)
  2. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  3. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  4. Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)
  5. Ethan Iverson & Umbria Jazz Orchestra, Bud Powell in the 21st Century (Sunnyside)
  6. The Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums, Wabi Sabi (Sowie Sound)
  7. Jeremy Pelt, Griot: This Is Important! (HighNote)
  8. Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!)
  9. The Cookers, Look Out! (Gearbox)
  10. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note -20)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  3. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)

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