16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Rick Mitchell (Jazz in the New Millennium)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  2. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  3. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern)
  4. Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios, Songs From My Father (Whaling City Sound)
  5. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  6. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)
  7. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
  8. Dr. Lonnie Smith, Breathe (Blue Note)
  9. Lauren Henderson, Musa (Brontosaurus)
  10. Arturo O'Farrill, . . . Dreaming in Lions . . . (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)
  2. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
  3. Oscar Peterson, A Time for Love: Live in Helsinki, 1987 (Mack Avenue)

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