16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Tom Hull (tomhull.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
  2. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  4. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR) (Pi)
  5. Dave Rempis-Tomeka Reid-Joshua Abrams-Tim Daisy-Tyler Damon, The Covid Tapes: Solos, Duos, & Trios (Aerophonic)
  6. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Standards) 2020 (New Braxton House)
  7. François Carrier, Glow (FMR)
  8. Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Long Tall Sunshine (Not Two)
  9. Wadada Leo Smith, Sacred Ceremonies (TUM)
  10. Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Let the Free Be Men (Trost)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Duck Baker, Confabulations (1994-2017, ESP-Disk)
  2. Total Music Association, Walpurgisnacht (1971, NoBusiness)
  3. Bill Evans, Behind the Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings (Resonance)

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