16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
Ballot 2021
NEW RELEASES
- Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
- Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
- Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
- Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints, Other Worlds (Greenleaf Music)
- Theo Croker, BLK2LIFE ∥ A Future Past (Sony Masterworks)
- Carlos Henriquez, The South Bronx Story (Tiger Turn)
- Marc Cary, Life Lessons (Sessionheads United)
- Russell Gunn & the Royal Krunk Jazz Orchestra, The Sirius Mystery Opus 4 No. 1 (Ropeadope)
- Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)
- Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)
- Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto: The Custodian's Mix (1968, Impulse!)
- Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
VOCAL
- Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)
DEBUT
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, Cosmic Transitions (Division 81)
LATIN
- Arturo O'Farrill, . . . Dreaming in Lions . . . (Blue Note)