16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Stuart Nicholson (Jazzwise)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  2. Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression (ECM)
  3. Pat Metheny, Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) (Modern)
  4. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  5. Daniel Garcia Trio, Via De La Plata (ACT)
  6. Keith Jarrett, Munich 2016 (ECM -19)
  7. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  8. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  9. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  10. Benjamin Koppel-Kenny Werner-Scott Colley-Jack DeJohnette, The Art of the Quartet (Cowbell Music/Unit -20)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972) (Decca)
  2. Ken Wheeler and the John Dankworth Orchestra, Windmill Tilter: The Story of Don Quixote (1969, Decca)
  3. The New Jazz Orchestra, Le Déjeuner Sur L'Herbe (1969, Decca)

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