16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Michael Ullman (Fanfare, ArtsFuse)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Esperanza Spalding, Songwrights Apothecary Lab (Concord)
  2. Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
  3. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR) (Pi)
  4. Artifacts [Tomeka Reid-Nicole Mitchell-Mike Reed], . . . And Then There's This (Astral Spirits)
  5. Renee Rosnes, Kinds of Love (Smoke Sessions)
  6. Marc Johnson, Overpass (ECM)
  7. Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)
  8. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (Mack Avenue)
  9. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Searching for the Disappeared Hour (Pyroclastic)
  10. Adam O'Farrill, Visions of Your Other (Biophilia)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Louis Armstrong, The Complete Louis Armstrong Columbia & RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-66 (Mosaic)
  2. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)
  3. Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)

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