16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charnett Moffett, New Love (Motéma)
  2. John Daversa Jazz Orchestra, All Without Words: Variations Inspired by Loren (Tiger Turn)
  3. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises (Luaka Bop)
  4. William Parker, Mayan Space Station (AUM Fidelity)
  5. Jeff Lederer's Sunwatcher, Eightfold Path (Little(i)Music)
  6. Wadada Leo Smith's Great Lakes Quartet, The Chicago Symphonies (TUM)
  7. Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, Long Tall Sunshine (Not Two)
  8. Mary LaRose, Out Here (Little (i) Music)
  9. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  10. Rodrigo Faina and Change Ensemble, Different Roots (Red Piano)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri)
  2. Sun Ra, Lanquidity [Definitive Edition] (1978, Strut)
  3. Neil Ardley, Kaleidoscope of Rainbows Live '75 (Jazz in Britain)

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