16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Larry Hollis (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sharel Cassity-Rajiv Halim-Greg Ward, Altoizm (Afar Music)
  2. George Cables, Too Close for Comfort (HighNote)
  3. Greg Abate, Magic Dance: The Music of Kenny Barron (Whaling City Sound)
  4. Noah Haidu-Buster Williams-Billy Hart, Slowly: Song for Keith Jarrett (Sunnyside)
  5. Carlos Vega, Art of the Messenger (Origin)
  6. Louis Hayes, Crisis (Savant)
  7. Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Long Tall Sunshine (Not Two)
  8. Jon Gordon, Stranger Than Fiction (ArtistShare)
  9. Richard D. Johnson, First Glance (Afar Music)
  10. Pat Bianchi, Something to Say: The Music of Stevie Wonder (Savant)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sonny Clark, My Conception (1959, Blue Note Tone Poet)
  2. Hal Galper Quintet, Live at the Berlin Philharmonic 1977 (Origin)
  3. Jim Snidero, Strings (2001, Savant)

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