16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2021
The Critics
- Karl Ackermann: All About Jazz, Chicago Jazz Magazine
- Paul Acquaro: Free Jazz Collective
- David R. Adler: freelance
- Michael J. Agovino: The Village Voice, Pitchfork, Esquire, L.A. Review of Books
- Scott Albin: Amazon.com
- Shannon Ali (Shannon J. Effinger): New York Times, The Washington Post, Pitchfork, NPR Music
- Larry Appelbaum: JazzTimes, WPFW-FM
- Mirian Arbalejo: La Cesión de las Voluntades
- Hrayr Attarian: Jazziz, All About Jazz
- Chris Barton: Los Angeles Times, DownBeat
- Andy Beta: Pitchfork, Washington Post, New York Times, Bandcamp
- Bill Beuttler: Emerson College, Boston Globe
- Dan Bilawsky: All About Jazz, JazzTimes, New York City Jazz Record
- Larry Birnbaum: Stereophile
- Larry Blumenfeld: Wall Street Journal, Daily Beast, Jazziz
- Philip Booth: JazzTimes, Jazziz, Relix
- Mike Borella: Avant Music News
- Shaun Brady: Philadelphia Inquirer, JazzTimes, Tidal
- Marcela Breton: JJA
- Stuart Broomer: Free Jazz Collective, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, Wholenote
- Bill Brownlee: Plastic Sax, KCUR
- Greg Bryant: WBGO Jazz After Hours and Jazz United Podcast
- Robert Bush: New York City Jazz Record, San Diego Reader, San Diego Troubadour
- Dan Buskirk: WPRB [Princeton], Fun2Know Podcast
- Dave Cantor: various publications
- John Chacona: Erie [PA] Times-News, All About Jazz, Postgenre Media, Let's Call This
- Brad Cohan: JazzTimes, Bandcamp Daily
- Aaron Cohen: Chicago Reader, DownBeat
- Troy Collins: Point of Departure
- Thomas Conrad: JazzTimes, Stereophile, New York City Jazz Record
- J.D. Considine: DownBeat, JazzTimes
- Mark Corroto: All About Jazz
- Michael Coyle: WRCU, Colgate University
- Raul da Gama: JazzDaGama, The WholeNote Magazine, Hot House Jazz, LatinJazzNet, World Music Report, That Canadian Magazine
- Francis Davis: Erstwhile
- Anthony Dean-Harris: KRTU San Antonio, DownBeat
- Steve Dollar: Flamingo
- Laurence Donohue-Greene: The New York City Jazz Record
- Troy Dostert: All About Jazz, Free Jazz Collective
- Alain Drouot: Downbeat, Citizenjazz.com
- Ken Dryden: New York City Jazz Record, Hot House, Timeless Jazz [WUTC-FM]
- Jordannah Elizabeth: New York City Jazz Record, New York Amsterdam News
- Morgan Enos: GRAMMY.com, JazzTimes, Tidal, Fortune, Billboard, Discogs, Vinyl Me Please
- John Ephland: DownBeat, All About Jazz
- Steve Feeney: Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, ArtsFuse
- Ken Franckling: JazzTimes, Hot House, Jazz Notes
- Phil Freeman: Burning Ambulance, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, Stereogum
- Filipe Freitas: JazzTrail
- Pat Frisco: WHFR-FM [Dearborn, MI]
- Jon Garelick: Boston Globe, The Arts Fuse, Jazziz, DownBeat
- Ana Gavrilovska: Maggot Brain, Aquarium Drunkard, Detroit Metro Times
- Richard Gehr: Relix
- Andrew Gilbert: San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Classical Voice, Bay Area News Group
- Ted Gioia: The History of Jazz
- Kurt Gottschalk: New York City Jazz Record, The Wire, Stereophile, WKCR
- David A. Graham: The Atlantic
- Mike Greenblatt: Goldmine, The Aquarian, Jersey Sound
- Steve Greenlee: JazzTimes (Boston Globe alum)
- George Grella: Brooklyn Rail, Red Hook Star-Review, Bandcamp, The Wire
- Kira Grunenberg: DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record, No Depression, NPR, American Songwriter, Throw the Dice and Play Nice
- Scott Gutterman: The Brooklyn Rail
- James Hale: DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com
- Robert Ham: DownBeat, Aquarium Drunkard, KQED
- Chris Heim: KMUW-FM
- Andrey Henkin: New York City Jazz Record
- Geoffrey Himes: JazzTimes, Paste, Washington Post
- Rob Hoff: WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], JazzErie
- Eugene Holley, Jr.: DownBeat, Hot House, Publishers Weekly
- Larry Hollis: Cadence
- Mark Holston: Jazziz, Latino
- Tom Hull: tomhull.com
- Peter Hum: The Ottawa Citizen
- Robert Iannapollo: New York City Jazz Record, Cadence, ARSC Journal
- Willard Jenkins: DownBeat, JazzTimes, WPFW "Jazz & Justice Radio" [Washington DC], The Independent Ear, Savage Content
- David Brent Johnson: Jazz Director, Night Lights host, WFIU [Bloomington, IN]
- Martin Johnson: Wall Street Journal, NPR, JazzTimes, Bandcamp, Tidal
- T.R. Johnson: WWOZ 98.7 FM [New Orleans]
- Sanford Josephson: Jersey Jazz Magazine
- Ammar Kalia: The Guardian
- Richard B. Kamins: Step Tempest
- George Kanzler: Hot House, New York City Jazz Record
- Fred Kaplan: Slate, Stereophile
- Yoshi Kato: San Francisco Chronicle, DownBeat
- Elzy Kolb: freelance
- Stuart Kremsky: Mr. Stu's Record Room
- David Kunian: WWOZ-FM New Orleans, Offbeat, New Orleans Jazz Museum
- Art Lange: freelance
- Josh Langhoff: Wrigley Field organist, NorteñoBlog
- Will Layman: PopMatters
- Devin Leonard: Bloomberg
- John Litweiler: WHPK-FM [Chicago], Point of Departure
- Suzanne Lorge: New York City Jazz Record, DownBeat, Jazziz
- Phillip Lutz: DownBeat
- Jim Macnie: DownBeat, TONE Audio, Lament for a Straight Line
- Howard Mandel: Downbeat, ArtsJournal/JazzBeyondJazz, The Wire, Jazz Journalists Association, NPR
- Peter Margasak: DownBeat, The Wire, Chamber Music, The Quietus, Bandcamp Daily
- Lee Mergner: JazzTimes
- Ken Micallef: Stereophile, JazzTimes, DownBeat
- Milo Miles: The Arts Fuse, Miles to Go
- Ralph A. Miriello: Notes on Jazz
- Rick Mitchell: Jazz in the New Millennium
- Chris Monsen: Klassekampen's Musikkmagasinet, Jazznytt, Ballade.no
- John Frederick Moore: Jazziz
- Allen Morrison: DownBeat, JazzTimes
- Russ Musto: New York City Jazz Record
- Michael G. Nastos: Hot House, WCBN 88.3 [Ann Arbor], Paradiso Dei Musicisti, Facebook
- Ivana Ng: DownBeat
- Stuart Nicholson: Jazzwise
- Tim Niland: Music & More
- Sean J. O\'Connell: Los Angeles Times, KPCC
- Ysi Ortega: Stalker 21, El Intruso
- Dan Ouellette: DownBeat, Stereophile, QWEST.TV, Jazz & Beyond Intel
- Phil Overeem: Living to Listen
- Terry Perkins: DownBeat
- Sergio Piccirilli: El Intruso
- John Pietaro: New York City Jazz Record
- Peter Quinn: Jazzwise, The Arts Desk
- Derk Richardson: The Absolute Sound, Peghead Nation, KPFA 94.1 FM [Berkeley]
- Britt Robson: JazzTimes, Bandcamp, Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Lloyd Sachs: Jazziz
- Bret Saunders: Denver Post, KBCO-FM [Denver]
- Rich Scheinin: SFJAZZ
- Ronald Schepper: Textura
- Sarah Schmidt: Jazz Director, WRFL-FM [Lexington, KY]
- Gene Seymour: CNN, Bookforum, The Nation
- Mike Shanley: JazzTimes, Shanley on Music
- John Sharpe: The New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, All About Jazz
- Adam Shatz: London Review of Books
- Rob Shepherd: PostGenre Media
- Hank Shteamer: Rolling Stone
- Jackson Sinnenberg: CapitalBop, JazzTimes
- Slim: WRCU: Slim's Spins and The Slim & Him Show
- Stewart Smith: The Wire, The Quietus, Bandcamp Daily, We Jazz
- Jon Solomon: Westword
- Sammy Stein: Something Else Reviews, Free Jazz Collective, Jazz Views
- Mark Stryker: Jazz From Detroit (University of Michigan Press)
- Dave Sumner: Bandcamp, Bird Is the Worm
- John Szwed: The Wire, Center for Jazz Studies [Columbia University]
- Jeff Tamarkin: JazzTimes, Relix, Mojo, Best Classic Bands, Tidal
- Derek Taylor: Dusted
- Neil Tesser: Jazziz
- Michael Toland: The Big Takeover
- Michael Ullman: Fanfare, ArtsFuse
- Ludwig vanTrikt: Cadence
- Seth Colter Walls: New York Times
- Ken Waxman: Jazz Word
- Bob Weinberg: Jazziz
- Jason Weiss: Le Ventre et l'Oreille, The Wire
- Ken Weiss: Cadence, Jazz Inside
- Michael J. West: JazzTimes, DownBeat, Washington Post
- Richard Williams: The Blue Moment
- Jerome Wilson: All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax
- Josef Woodard: DownBeat, Jazziz, Los Angeles Times, joewoodard.com
- Ron Wynn: Nashville Scene, Tennessee Tribune, Tennessee Jazz & Blues
- Scott Yanow: DownBeat, Jazziz, New York City Jazz Record, Los Angeles Jazz Scene, Syncopated Times
- Alan Young: New York Music Daily, Lucid Culture