16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Derek Taylor (Dusted)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith, Trumpet (TUM)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  3. Joe McPhee-Michael Bisio-Fred Lonberg-Holm-Juma Sultan, The Sweet Spot (RogueArt)
  4. Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
  5. Natural Information Society & Evan Parker, Descension (Out of Our Constrictions) (Aguirre/Eremite)
  6. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  7. Irène Schweizer & Hamid Drake, Celebration (Intakt)
  8. JD Allen, Queen City (Savant)
  9. Ben Goldberg, Everything Happens to Be. (BAG Productions)
  10. Stephen Riley, I Remember You (SteepleChase)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Joel Futterman, Creation Series (2008, NoBusiness)

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