16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
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Ballot 2021

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John Sharpe (The New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Wandersphere (Intakt)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  3. Rachel Musson, Dreamsing (577)
  4. Ahmed, Nights on Saturn (Communication) (Astral Spirits)
  5. David Leon, Aire De Agua (Out of Your Head)
  6. Wadada Leo Smith-Douglas R Ewart-Mike Reed, Sun Beans of Shimmering Light (Astral Spirits)
  7. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Special Edition Box: Procedural Language (SMP)
  8. Rodrigo Amado Motion Trio & Alexander von Schlippenbach, The Field (NoBusiness)
  9. Judson Trio [Joëlle Léandre-Mat Maneri-Gerald Cleaver], Light and Dance (RogueArt)
  10. Nate Wooley, Mutual Aid Music (Pleasure of the Text)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. Joel Futterman, Creation Series (2008, NoBusiness)
  3. Sam Rivers Quartet, Braids [Sam Rivers Archive Project, Volume 4] (1979, NoBusiness -20)

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