16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Martin Johnson (Wall Street Journal, NPR, JazzTimes, Bandcamp, Tidal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
  3. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)
  4. Caroline Davis, Portals, Volume 1: Mourning (Sunnyside)
  5. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
  6. The Baylor Project, Generations (Be a Light)
  7. Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force, Dear Love (Empress Legacy)
  8. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  9. Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The News (ECM)
  10. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
  3. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)

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