16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Michael J. West (JazzTimes, DownBeat, Washington Post)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jamire Williams, But Only After You Have Suffered (International Anthem)
  2. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  3. William Parker, Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering/AUM Fidelity)
  4. Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough (Cuneiform)
  5. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
  6. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
  7. Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue, Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (Pi)
  8. James Francies, Purest Form (Blue Note)
  9. Helen Sung, Quartet + (Sunnyside)
  10. Dan McCarthy, A Place Where We Once Lived (self-released)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

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