16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Alan Young (New York Music Daily, Lucid Culture)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Derrick Gardner and the Big Dig! Band, Still I Rise (Impact Jazz -20)
  2. Bence Vas & Big Band, Overture et al. (self-released -20)
  3. Sana Nagano, Smashing Humans (577)
  4. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  5. Greg Loughman, RE: Connection (self-released)
  6. Matthew Shipp, Codebreaker (TAO Forms)
  7. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
  8. Wadada Leo Smith, Sacred Ceremonies (TUM)
  9. The JCA Orchestra, Live at the BPC (JCA -20)
  10. Gordon Grdina's Square Peg, Klotski (Attaboygirl)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Michael Gregory Jackson, Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, self-released -20)
  2. SPP, L'Albero Delle Meduse (2009, The Museum of Viral Memory)
  3. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)

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