16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021

Ballot 2021

Richard Williams (The Blue Moment)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Masabumi Kikuchi, Hanamichi: The Final Studio Recording (Red Hook)
  2. Vijay Iyer-Linda May Han Oh-Tyshawn Sorey, Uneasy (ECM)
  3. Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound, The Other Shore (Outnote)
  4. Alexander Hawkins, Togetherness Music: For Sixteen Musicians (Intakt)
  5. Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte Del Bolero (Miel Music)
  6. Johnathan Blake, Homeward Bound (Blue Note)
  7. Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue, Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses (Pi)
  8. Xhosa Cole, Know Them, Know Us (Stoney Lane)
  9. Tom Rainey Obbligato, Untucked in Hannover (Intakt)
  10. John Zorn, Parables (Tzadik)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)
  2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle (1965, Impulse!)
  3. Splinters, Inclusivity (1972, Jazz in Britain)

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