16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
Ballot 2021
NEW RELEASES
- Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpet (TUM)
- James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
- Joe McPhee-Michael Bisio-Fred Lonberg-Holm-Juma Sultan, The Sweet Spot (RogueArt)
- Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
- Natural Information Society & Evan Parker, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Aguirre/Eremite)
- Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
- Irène Schweizer & Hamid Drake, Celebration (Intakt)
- JD Allen, Queen City (Savant)
- Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
- Stephen Riley, I Remember You (SteepleChase)
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
- John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
- Joel Futterman, Creation Series (2008, NoBusiness)
VOCAL
- Moreno Veloso, Every Single Night (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
DEBUT
- Abe Mamet, The Abe Mamet Trio (LMB)
LATIN
- Diego Rivera, Indigenous (Posi-Tone)