16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Mike Shanley (JazzTimes, Shanley on Music)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  2. Christopher Hoffman, Asp Nimbus (Out of Your Head)
  3. Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Long Tall Sunshine (Not Two)
  4. Kuzu, All Your Ghosts in One Corner (Aerophonic)
  5. Freddie Redd, Reminiscing (Bleebop)
  6. Caroline Davis, Portals, Volume 1: Mourning (Sunnyside)
  7. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
  8. Maria Grand, Reciprocity (Biophilia)
  9. Hafez Modirzadeh, Facets (Pi)
  10. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

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