16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

James Hale (DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  2. Kimbrough (Newvelle)
  3. Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Wandersphere (Intakt)
  4. Daniel Herskedal, Harbor (Edition)
  5. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
  6. Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition)
  7. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
  8. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
  9. Jakob Bro-Arve Henriksen-Jorge Rossy, Uma Elmo (ECM)
  10. Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
  2. Bill Evans, Everybody Still Digs Bill Evans: A Career Retrospective (1956-1980) (Concord)
  3. Ray Charles, True Genius (1960-2004, Tangerine)

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