16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Josh Langhoff (Wrigley Field organist, NorteņoBlog)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
  2. Dan Blake, Da Fé (Sunnyside)
  3. Rich Halley-Dan Clucas-Clyde Reed-Carson Halley, Boomslang (Pine Eagle)
  4. Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)
  5. Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble, Now (International Anthem)
  6. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  7. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  8. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis, The Democracy! Suite (Blue Engine)
  9. Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid)
  10. Miho Hazama & Danish Radio Big Band, Imaginary Visions (Edition)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Michael Gregory Jackson, Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, self-released -20)

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