16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
Ballot 2021
NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)
- Rahsaan Barber, Mosaic (Jazz Music City)
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
- Boubacar "Badian" Diabaté, Mande Guitar (Lion Songs)
- Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
- Makaya McCraven, Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)
- William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
- Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
- Wadada Leo Smith, Sacred Ceremonies (TUM)
- Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
- Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)
- Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
- John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
- Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
VOCAL
- Maria Muldaur With Tuba Skinny, Let's Get Happy Together (Stony Plain)
DEBUT
LATIN
- It's a Good, Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records: The Singles (1965-75, Craft)