16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Elzy Kolb (freelance)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Parker, Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  4. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  5. Helen Sung, Quartet + (Sunnyside)
  6. Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Long Tall Sunshine (Not Two)
  7. Orrin Evans, The Magic of Now (Smoke Sessions)
  8. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
  9. Alchemy Sound Project, Afrika Love (ARC)
  10. Lena Bloch & Feathery, Rose of Lifta (Fresh Sound New Talent)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  2. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)
  3. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)

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