16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
Ballot 2021
NEW RELEASES
- Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
- Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
- Natural Information Society & Evan Parker, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Aguirre/Eremite)
- Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
- Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
- Caroline Davis, Portals, Volume 1: Mourning (Sunnyside)
- James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
- Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
- Silke Eberhard Trio, Being the Up and Down (Intakt)
- Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Let the Free Be Men (Trost)
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charles Mingus, Mingus at Carnegie Hall [Deluxe Edition] (1974, Atlantic)
- Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
- Sarah Vaughan, Live at the Berlin Philharmonie 1969 (The Lost Recordings)
VOCAL
- Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force, Dear Love (Empress Legacy)
DEBUT
- Patricia Brennan, Maquishti (Valley of Search)
LATIN
- Ernesto Jodos, Confluence (Ears & Eyes)