16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

John Litweiler (WHPK-FM [Chicago], Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  2. Potsa Lotsa XL, Silk Songs for Space Dogs (Leo -20)
  3. Larry Ochs & Aram Shelton Quartet, Continental Drift (Clean Feed -20)
  4. Angelika Niescier & Alexander Hawkins, Soul in Plain Sight (Intakt)
  5. Wadada Leo Smith-Douglas R Ewart-Mike Reed, Sun Beans of Shimmering Light (Astral Spirits)
  6. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  7. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  8. Roscoe Mitchell, Dots: Pieces for Percussion and Woodwinds (Wide Hive)
  9. Anna Webber, Idiom (Pi)
  10. Rich Halley-Dan Clucas-Clyde Reed-Carson Halley, Boomslang (Pine Eagle)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Joel Futterman, Creation Series (2008, NoBusiness)
  2. Joe Harriott Quintet, Free Form & Abstract Revisited (1960-62, Ezz-Thetics)

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