16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Fred Kaplan (Slate, Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Sanford Big Band Featuring Hugh Ragin, A Prayer for Lester Bowie (Greenleaf Music)
  2. Kimbrough (Newvelle)
  3. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball)
  4. William Parker, Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity)
  5. John Zorn, New Masada Quartet (Tzadik)
  6. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  7. Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte Del Bolero (Miel Music)
  8. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
  9. Bill Charlap Trio, Street of Dreams (Blue Note)
  10. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
  2. Nina Simone, The Montreux Years (1968-90, BMG)
  3. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

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