16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Jon Solomon (Westword)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd & the Marvels, Tone Poem (Blue Note)
  2. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  3. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  4. Andrew Cyrille Quartet, The News (ECM)
  5. Jakob Bro-Arve Henriksen-Jorge Rossy, Uma Elmo (ECM)
  6. Dr. Lonnie Smith, Breathe (Blue Note)
  7. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  8. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  9. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  10. East Axis [Matthew Shipp-Allen Lowe-Gerald Cleaver-Kevin Ray], Cool With That (ESP-Disk)

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. Bill Evans, Behind the Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings (Resonance)

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