16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Robert Iannapollo (New York City Jazz Record, Cadence, ARSC Journal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
  3. Lucian Ban-John Surman-Mat Maneri, Transylvanian Folk Songs (Sunnyside -20)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  5. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  6. This Is It! [Satoko Fujii-Natsuki Tamura-Takashi Itani], Mosaic (Libra)
  7. Blue Reality Quartet, Blue Reality Quartet! (Mahakala)
  8. Mario Pavone Dialect Trio + 1, Blue Vertical (Out of Your Head)
  9. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  10. Futari [Satoko Fujii & Taiko Saito], Underground (Libra)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings (1962-65, Omnivore)
  3. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)

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