16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
Ballot 2021
NEW RELEASES
- East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
- Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
- James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR) (Pi)
- Dave Rempis-Tomeka Reid-Joshua Abrams-Tim Daisy-Tyler Damon, The Covid Tapes: Solos, Duos, & Trios (Aerophonic)
- Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Standards) 2020 (New Braxton House)
- François Carrier, Glow (FMR)
- Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Long Tall Sunshine (Not Two)
- Wadada Leo Smith, Sacred Ceremonies (TUM)
- Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Let the Free Be Men (Trost)
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Duck Baker, Confabulations (1994-2017, ESP-Disk)
- Total Music Association, Walpurgisnacht (1971, NoBusiness)
- Bill Evans, Behind the Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings (Resonance)
VOCAL
- Anthony Joseph, The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives (Heavenly Sweetness)
DEBUT
- Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O, Umdali (Mushroom Hour Half Hour)
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)