16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Josef Woodard (DownBeat, Jazziz, Los Angeles Times, joewoodard.com)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays (ECM)
  2. Bill Charlap Trio, Street of Dreams (Blue Note)
  3. Roscoe Mitchell, Dots: Pieces for Percussion and Woodwinds (Wide Hive)
  4. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  5. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  6. Jakob Bro-Arve Henriksen-Jorge Rossy, Uma Elmo (ECM)
  7. Jason Moran, The Sound Will Tell You (Yes)
  8. Pino Palladino and Blake Mills, Notes With Attachments (Impulse!)
  9. Gregg Belisle-Chi, Koi: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (Relative Pitch)
  10. Sons of Kemet, Black to the Future (Impulse!)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  2. Bola Sete, Samba in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Tompkins Square)
  3. Lee Morgan, The Complete Live at the Lighthouse (1970, Blue Note)

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