16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Ivana Ng (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  2. Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)
  3. Moor Mother, Black Encyclopedia of the Air (Anti-)
  4. Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
  5. Makaya McCraven, Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)
  6. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  7. Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!)
  8. Terrace Martin, Drones (BMG)
  9. Alfa Mist, Bring Backs (Anti-)
  10. Nubya Garcia, Source ⧺ We Move (Concord Jazz)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, Kirtan: Turiya Sings (1982, Impulse!)
  2. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
  3. Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)

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