Лучшие джазовые (и не только) альбомы 2021 по версии AllMusic / Favorite Jazz Albums of 2021
Наш джазовый список этого года включает не только традиционные записи покойного доктора Лонни Смита, Курта Эллинга и Дейва МакМюррея, но и экспериментальные композиции Sons of Kemet, BadBadNotGood и Эсперансы Сполдинг.
Alfa Mist
Bring Backs
The keyboardist and rapper's first album for Anti- finds him further expanding his jazz, hip-hop, and classical-influenced sound.
BadBadNotGood
Talk Memory
The Canadian jazz group return to their instrumental roots on their fifth album, which features guests such as Arthur Verocai and Laraaji.
Ben LaMar Gay
Open Arms to Open Us
A kaleidoscopic, boundary-pushing album from the Chicago artist, rife with indie, avant-garde, and global influences.
Cameron Graves
Seven
On his second date as a bandleader, the pianist and composer freely indulges in fusion, post-bop, and even metal, without abandoning his acoustic piano.
Carmen Castaldi / Marilyn Crispell / Joe Lovano
Trio Tapestry: Garden of Expression
The second album from Lovano's trio showcasing their artfully spare sound.
Chelsea Carmichael
The River Doesn't Like Strangers
The English saxophonist and her quartet offer a new direction that emerges from the roots of the Caribbean diaspora as it meets modern jazz.
Ches Smith / We All Break / Ches Smith / We All Break
Path of Seven Colors
We All Break became an octet for its second outing, going ever deeper into its kaleidoscopic exploration of jazz and Haitian music.
Colin Hinton / Ocelot / Cat Toren / Yuma Uesaka
Ocelot
The artful debut from the Brooklyn avant-garde jazz trio.
Craig Taborn
Shadow Plays
On his second solo date for ECM, the pianist displays his dazzling improvisational acumen and compositional thought simultaneously.
Darius Jones
Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation)
An emotional solo saxophone performance captures the artist in the act of reinterpreting classic vanguard works and a jazz standard for the future.
Dave McMurray
Grateful Deadication
The Detroit saxophonist delivers ten Grateful Dead covers with danceable, sophisticated charts focusing on their infectious rhythms and melodies.
David Sanford & the Pittsburgh Collective / David Sanford
A Prayer for Lester Bowie
The composer/arranger offers a bold large ensemble album featuring trumpeter Hugh Ragin.
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Breathe
The Hammond B-3 master is joined by punk legend Iggy Pop on this earthy Don Was production.
Eivind Aarset / Eivind Aarset 4-Tet
Phantasmagoria or a Different Kind of Journey
This dynamic, immersive release marks the experimental guitarist's long-awaited return to using his instrument in a conventional manner.
Emma-Jean Thackray
Yellow
On her debut album, the London-based composer and multi-instrumentalist creates a holistic meld of spiritual jazz, funk, soul, and electronica.
Esperanza Spalding
Songwrights Apothecary Lab
The acclaimed bassist/singer continues to explore a far-reaching and experimental blend of avant-garde jazz, art rock, R&B, and beyond.
Ethan Iverson / Umbria Jazz Orchestra
Bud Powell in the 21st Century
The former Bad Plus pianist's vibrant and engaging big band celebration of the bebop legend's music.
Floating Points / London Symphony Orchestra / Pharoah Sanders
Promises
Sam Shepherd enables the inventive saxophonist to stretch out for most of this glimmering suite.
Garage a Trois
Calm Down Cologne
Fevered grooves and psych textures mark this reunion of the experimental trio's original lineup.
Gary Bartz / Ali Shaheed Muhammad / Adrian Younge
Gary Bartz JID006
The octogenarian altoist leads the Jazz Is Dead crew and drummer Greg Paul through an exploratory jazz-funk groove session.
Gretchen Parlato
Flor
After an eight-year break, the jazz singer and songwriter returns with a new band and sound on a recording that highlights all of her gifts.
Henry Threadgill / Henry Threadgill Zooid
Poof
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Henry Threadgill's longest-standing band delivers a playful, adventurous, idiosyncratic brand of modern jazz.
James Brandon Lewis / Red Lily Quintet
Jesup Wagon
The tenor and his all-star quintet deliver an exploratory musical tribute to the life, vision, and work of George Washington Carver.
James Francies
Purest Form
The pianist and composer's second Blue Note set crisscrosses genre boundaries to craft a bold new approach in jazz.
Jazzmeia Horn
Dear Love
A transcendent big band album from the Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist, songwriter, and arranger.
Jeremy Pelt
Griot: This Is Important!
The trumpeter's companion album to his jazz interview book finds him using his conversations as a jumping-off point for his quintet.
John Carroll Kirby
Septet
Subtly dazzling jazz date from the Stones Throw keyboardist/composer following his mostly solitary 2020 solo recordings.
Jonathan Bremer / Bremer/McCoy / Morten McCoy
Natten
The Danish instrumental duo's second Luaka Bop album is a spectral, deeply evocative blend of jazz, classical, and electronic sounds.
Kenny Garrett
Sounds from the Ancestors
On his 20th album, the saxophonist and his ensemble explore the West African roots in soul, gospel, Afro-Cuban jazz, and more.
Keshav Batish
Binaries in Cycle
The Santa Cruz drummer's debut is a cohesive blend of hard-driving post-bop and Indian Classical Traditions.
Kurt Elling
SuperBlue
Potent funk and neo-soul vibes mark the singer's first collaboration with guitarist Charlie Hunter.
Ledisi
Sings Nina
Dazzling EP filled with highly personalized interpretations of songs Nina Simone either wrote or re-envisioned.
Maria Grand
Reciprocity
The saxophonist and singer's third album is a bold, exploratory meditation on birth and renewal.
Nala Sinephro
Space 1.8
The London-based composer and multi-instrumentalist intertwines spiritual jazz and ambient music on her meditative debut release.
Natural Information Society / Evan Parker
Descension (Out of Our Constrictions)
A set-long collaboration between the Chicago-based world jazz ensemble and soprano maverick Evan Parker delivers ecstatic results.
Nikolaj Hess
Spacelab & Strings
The Danish pianist pairs his trio with a string quartet on this innovative, beautifully realized amalgam of classical and jazz.
Nortonk
Nortonk
The New York quartet find common ground between Ornette Coleman free-bop and Gerry Mulligan lyricism on their bold debut.
Pat Metheny
Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV)
This live trio outing with Marcus Gilmore and James Francies offers older material and new work played with elasticity, adventure, and warmth.
Philip Dizack / Shai Maestro / Ofri Nehemya / Jorge Roeder
Human
The Israeli pianist's harmonically nuanced sophomore ECM album with his trio and trumpeter Philip Dizack.
R+R=Now
Live
Expansive and funky concert album culled from the fusion collective's 2018 residency at the Blue Note.
Rick Margitza
Sacred Hearts
A warm and sophisticated album evoking '60s film music and vibrant global jazz traditions.
Roy Hargrove / Mulgrew Miller
In Harmony
A deeply engaging archival set of duo performances by the two jazz stars, both of whom passed away well before their time.
Sons of Kemet
Black to the Future
On this almost uncategorizable musical milestone, the band and guests move across Black history and create an already present future.
Terence Blanchard
Absence
The trumpeter pairs his fusion E-Collective with Turtle Island Quartet for this expansive, endlessly mutative homage to Wayne Shorter.
Theo Bleckmann / The Westerlies
This Land
The acclaimed vocalist joins the progressive brass quartet for this deeply thoughtful and artful protest album.
Theo Croker
Blk2Life/A Future Past
The trumpeter crafts another uplifting blend of funky jazz, hip-hop, and R&B.
Theon Cross
Intra-I
Creating a virtual sound system from his tuba, the U.K. musician creates a gritty, dramatic soundscape that points squarely to the future.
Typical Sisters
Love Beam
The Chicago jazz and post-rock trio take an adventurous and unpredictable turn on their third album.
Vijay Iyer / Vijay Iyer Trio
Uneasy
This trio's recorded debut finds them simultaneously discovering a multivalent musical language and articulating its possibilities.
William Parker
Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World
Containing ten newly recorded vocal and instrumental albums, this set offers a revelatory portrait of the prolific jazzman's massive soundworld.