16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Will Layman (PopMatters)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
  3. Jon Irabagon, Bird With Streams (Irabbagast)
  4. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  5. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  6. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  7. Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The News (ECM)
  8. Orrin Evans, The Magic of Now (Smoke Sessions)
  9. Maria Grand, Reciprocity (Biophilia)
  10. Dave Holland, Another Land (Edition)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

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