16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Terry Perkins (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  2. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  3. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  4. Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)
  5. Theo Croker, BLK2LIFE ∥ A Future Past (Sony Masterworks)
  6. Carlos Henriquez, The South Bronx Story (Tiger Turn)
  7. Marc Cary, Life Lessons (Sessionheads United)
  8. Russell Gunn & the Royal Krunk Jazz Orchestra, The Sirius Mystery Opus 4 No. 1 (Ropeadope)
  9. Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)
  10. Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto: The Custodian's Mix (1968, Impulse!)
  3. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)

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