16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Willard Jenkins (DownBeat, JazzTimes, WPFW "Jazz & Justice Radio" [Washington DC], The Independent Ear, Savage Content)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  4. Ron Carter-Jack DeJohnette-Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Skyline (5 Passion)
  5. Ethan Iverson & Umbria Jazz Orchestra, Bud Powell in the 21st Century (Sunnyside)
  6. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  7. Bill Charlap Trio, Street of Dreams (Blue Note)
  8. Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Sone Ka-La 2: Odyssey (Enja)
  9. Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!)
  10. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

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