16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Robert Ham (DownBeat, Aquarium Drunkard, KQED)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darius Jones, Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (Northern Spy)
  2. Nala Sinephro, Space 1.8 (Warp)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  4. Sana Nagano, Smashing Humans (577)
  5. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
  6. Barbara Ellison, CyberSongs (Unsounds)
  7. Nortonk, Nortonk (Biophilia)
  8. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  9. Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte Del Bolero (Miel Music)
  10. Jessica Ackerley, Morning/Mourning (Cacophonous Revival)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)
  3. Michael Gregory Jackson, Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, self-released -20)

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