16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Hank Shteamer (Rolling Stone)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Code of Being (Intakt)
  3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  4. Dan Weiss & Miles Okazaki, Music for Drums and Guitar (Cygnus)
  5. Francisco Mela, M.P.T. Trio: Volume 1 (577)
  6. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  7. Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Long Tall Sunshine (Not Two)
  8. The Cookers, Look Out! (Gearbox)
  9. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  10. Chris Potter Circuits Trio, Sunrise Reprise (Edition)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Cecil Taylor, Music From Two Continents: Live at Jazz Jamboree '84 (Fundacja Sluchaj)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Roy Brooks, Understanding (1970, Reel-to-Real)

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