16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Chris Heim (KMUW-FM)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dr. Lonnie Smith, Breathe (Blue Note)
  2. Jenny Klukken, Color in Motion (self-released)
  3. Simon Moullier Trio, Countdown (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  4. Joe Fiedler's "Open Sesame", Fuzzy and Blue (Multiphonics)
  5. Bill Charlap Trio, Street of Dreams (Blue Note)
  6. The Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums, Wabi Sabi (Sowie Sound)
  7. Pat Coil, How Deep Is the Ocean (Burton Avenue)
  8. Diego Rivera, Indigenous (Posi-Tone)
  9. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  10. Ben Allison, Moments Inside (Sonic Camera)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Bill Evans, Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980) (Concord)
  2. Bola Sete, Samba in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Tompkins Square)
  3. Harvie S Trio, Going for It (1985, Savant)

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