16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Derk Richardson (The Absolute Sound, Peghead Nation, KPFA 94.1 FM [Berkeley])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Anthony Braxton, 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017 (Firehouse 12)
  2. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
  3. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
  4. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  5. Futari [Satoko Fujii & Taiko Saito], Beyond (Libra)
  6. Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
  7. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  8. Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)
  9. Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Garden of Expression (ECM)
  10. Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Bola Sete, Samba in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Tompkins Square)

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