16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Phillip Lutz (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dave Liebman Expansions, Selflessness: The Music of John Coltrane (Dot Time)
  2. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  3. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  4. Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition)
  5. Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The News (ECM)
  6. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)
  7. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  8. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
  9. Pat Metheny, Road to the Sun (Modern)
  10. Jon Irabagon, Bird With Streams (Irabbagast)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Horace Silver Quintet, 6 Pieces of Silver (1956, Blue Note)
  2. Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)
  3. Eberhard Weber, Once Upon a Time: Live in Avignon (1994, ECM)

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