16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
Ballot 2021
NEW RELEASES
- East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, (Exit) Knarr (Odin)
- James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
- Rocio Giménez López-Luciana Bass-Fermin Suarez-Rosina Scampino, Reunión En La Granja (Discos ICM)
- Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
- The Source, . . . But Swinging Doesn't Bend Them Down (Odin)
- Florian Arbenz, Conversations #2 & #3 (Hammer)
- Tim Berne-Chris Speed-Reid Anderson-Dave King, Broken Shadows (Intakt)
- Vincent Herring, Preaching to the Choir (Smoke Sessions)
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, Cosmic Transitions (Division 81)
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
- Juju, Live at 131 Prince Street (1973, Strut)
- Dennis González & Yusef Komunyakaa, Herido: Live at St James Cathedral, Chicago (1999, 8th Harmonic Breakdown)
VOCAL
- Anthony Joseph, The Rich Are Only Defeated When Running for Their Lives (Heavenly Sweetness)
DEBUT
LATIN
- Orquestra Afro-Brasileira, 80 Anos (Day Dreamer)