16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Scott Gutterman (The Brooklyn Rail)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. Makaya McCraven, Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)
  4. Dr. Lonnie Smith, Breathe (Blue Note)
  5. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
  6. Cat Toren's Human Kind, Scintillating Beauty (New Focus -20)
  7. Chet Doxas, You Can't Take It With You (Whirlwind)
  8. Dahveed Behroozi, Echos (Sunnyside)
  9. Jakob Bro-Arve Henriksen-Jorge Rossy, Uma Elmo (ECM)
  10. Aakash Mittal, Nocturne (self-released)

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. Horace Silver Quintet, 6 Pieces of Silver (1956, Blue Note)

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