16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Richard B. Kamins (Step Tempest)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Kimbrough (Newvelle)
  3. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR) (Pi)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  5. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  6. Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble, What to Wear in the Dark (Resilience)
  7. Glenn Close & Ted Nash, Transformation (Tiger Turn)
  8. Mario Pavone & The Tampa Quartet, Isabella (Clean Feed)
  9. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  10. Chet Doxas, You Can't Take It With You (Whirlwind)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  3. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance -20)

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