16th Annual Jazz Critics Poll Ballot 2021

January 8, 2022

ArtsFuse/Hullworks
Ken Waxman (Jazz Word)

Choices

NEW RELEASES

1. Joëlle Léandre, Beauty/Resistance (Not Two)

2. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being the Up and Down (Intakt)

3. Tom Ward-Martina Verhoeven-Dirk Serries-Cath Roberts, Imaginary Junction (A New Wave of Jazz)

4. KORR, Tombé De La Voûte (We Insist)

5. Bertrand Gauguet & John Tilbury, Contre-Courbes (Akousis)

6. Punkt.Vrt.Plastik, Somit (Intakt)

7. Flow Trio With Joe McPhee, Winter Garden (ESP-Disk)

8. Umlaut Big Band, Mary’s Ideas (Umlaut)

9. See Through 4, Permanent Moving Parts (All-Set! Editions)

10. Lao Dan & Deng Boyu, TUTU Duo (NoBusiness)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

1. Cecil Taylor Quintet, Lifting the Bandstand (1998, Fundacja Sluchaj)

2. Julius Hemphill, The Boyé Multi-National Crusade for Harmony (1977-2007, New World)

3. Roberto Miranda’s Home Music Ensemble, Live at Bing Theatre: Los Angeles, 1985 (Dark Tree)

VOCAL

• No choice

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DEBUT

• Charlotte Keefe, Right Here Right Now (Discus)

LATIN

• Paula Shocron-William Parker-Pablo Díaz, El Templo (Astral Spirits)

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