16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Lloyd Sachs (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  3. Natural Information Society & Evan Parker, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Aguirre/Eremite)
  4. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  5. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
  6. Caroline Davis, Portals, Volume 1: Mourning (Sunnyside)
  7. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  8. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  9. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being the Up and Down (Intakt)
  10. Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Let the Free Be Men (Trost)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
  2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  3. Sarah Vaughan, Live at the Berlin Philharmonie 1969 (The Lost Recordings)

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