16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Michael G. Nastos (Hot House, WCBN 88.3 [Ann Arbor], Paradiso Dei Musicisti, Facebook)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  2. Miguel Zenón-Ariel Bringuez-Demian Cabaud-Jordi Rossy, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman (Miel Music)
  3. Lunar Octet, Convergence (Summit)
  4. Nik Bärtsch, Entendre (ECM)
  5. Claudio Scolari Project, Cosmology (Principal)
  6. David Janeway, Distant Voices (SteepleChase LookOut)
  7. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  8. Charged Particles With Tod Dickow, Live at the Baked Potato: The Music of Michael Brecker (Summit)
  9. Cowboys & Frenchmen, Our Highway (Outside In Music)
  10. Brian Charette, Power From the Air (SteepleChase)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Don Cherry, The Summer House Sessions (1968, Blank Forms Editions)
  2. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
  3. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)

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