16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Jeff Tamarkin (JazzTimes, Relix, Mojo, Best Classic Bands, Tidal)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Cameron Graves, Seven (Mack Avenue)
  2. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)
  3. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  4. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  5. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  6. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  7. Brian Lynch, Songbook Vol. 1: Bus Stop Serenade (Holistic MusicWorks)
  8. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  9. Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)
  10. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)
  3. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)

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