16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
Ballot 2021
NEW RELEASES
- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
- Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)
- Moor Mother, Black Encyclopedia of the Air (Anti-)
- Irreversible Entanglements, Open the Gates (International Anthem)
- Makaya McCraven, Deciphering the Message (Blue Note)
- Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
- Brandee Younger, Somewhere Different (Impulse!)
- Terrace Martin, Drones (BMG)
- Alfa Mist, Bring Backs (Anti-)
- Nubya Garcia, Source ⧺ We Move (Concord Jazz)
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Alice Coltrane, Kirtan: Turiya Sings (1982, Impulse!)
- Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
- Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)
VOCAL
- Moor Mother, Black Encyclopedia of the Air (Anti-)
DEBUT
- Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)
LATIN