16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Gene Seymour (CNN, Bookforum, The Nation)

NEW RELEASES

  1. William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity)
  2. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis, The Democracy! Suite (Blue Engine)
  3. Veronica Swift, This Bitter Earth (Mack Avenue)
  4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  5. William Parker, Painters Winter (AUM Fidelity)
  6. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  7. Kimbrough (Newvelle)
  8. Archie Shepp & Jason Moran, Let My People Go (Archieball)
  9. Julian Lage, Squint (Blue Note)
  10. Matthew Shipp & William Parker, Re-Union (RogueArt)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
  2. Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller, In Harmony (2006-07, Resonance)
  3. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings (1962-65, Omnivore)

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