16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Ken Waxman (Jazz Word)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joëlle Léandre, Beauty/Resistance (Not Two)
  2. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being the Up and Down (Intakt)
  3. Tom Ward-Martina Verhoeven-Dirk Serries-Cath Roberts, Imaginary Junction (A New Wave of Jazz)
  4. KORR, Tombé De La Voûte (We Insist)
  5. Bertrand Gauguet & John Tilbury, Contre-Courbes (Akousis)
  6. Punkt. Vrt. Plastik [Kaja Draksler/Petter Eldh/Christian Lillinger], Somit (Intakt)
  7. Flow Trio With Joe McPhee, Winter Garden (ESP-Disk)
  8. Umlaut Big Band, Mary's Ideas (Umlaut)
  9. See Through 4, Permanent Moving Parts (All-Set! Editions)
  10. Lao Dan & Deng Boyu, TUTU Duo (NoBusiness)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Cecil Taylor Quintet, Lifting the Bandstand (1998, Fundacja Sluchaj)
  2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  3. Roberto Miranda's Home Music Ensemble, Live at Bing Theatre: Los Angeles, 1985 (Dark Tree)

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