16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
Ballot 2021
NEW RELEASES
- James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon (TAO Forms)
- Sara Schoenbeck, Sara Schoenbeck (Pyroclastic)
- Blue Reality Quartet, Blue Reality Quartet! (Mahakala)
- Dopolarians, The Bond (Mahakala Music)
- Wadada Leo Smith-Jack DeJohnette-Vijay Iyer, A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday (TUM)
- George Cables, Too Close for Comfort (HighNote)
- Ches Smith & We All Break, Path of Seven Colors (Pyroclastic)
- Eliane Elias, Mirror Mirror (Candid)
- Jane Ira Bloom & Mark Helias, Some Kind of Tomorrow (self-released)
- Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof (Pi)
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Hasaan Ibn Ali, Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Album (1965, Omnivore)
- Hasaan Ibn Ali, Retrospect in Retirement of Delay: The Solo Recordings (1962-65, Omnivore)
- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings (Blue Note)
VOCAL
- Sachal Vasandani & Romain Collin, Midnight Shelter (Edition)
DEBUT
- Samara Joy, Samara Joy (Whirlwind)
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte Del Bolero (Miel Music)