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Feb
Alice Coltrane
Journey in Satchidananda
93
critic score
(3)
87
user score
(847)
Nov 3
The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin
The Inner Mounting Flame
100
critic score
(3)
87
user score
(526)
Feb 24
Miles Davis
A Tribute to Jack Johnson
98
critic score
(4)
84
user score
(304)
Nov 17
Miles Davis
Live-Evil
90
critic score
(6)
86
user score
(198)
May
Pharoah Sanders
Thembi
75
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(140)
Aug
John Coltrane
Sun Ship
80
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(139)
Sep
Alice Coltrane
Universal Consciousness
85
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(134)
May 21
Grant Green
Visions
60
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(78)
Mar 15
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
80
user score
(58)
Mar
Herbie Hancock
Mwandishi
100
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(57)
Oct 15
Joe McPhee
Nation Time
80
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(53)
Dec
Carla Bley & Paul Haines
Escalator Over the Hill
60
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(49)
Feb 28
Soft Machine
Fourth
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(45)
Jun 10
Marvin Gaye
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
95
user score
(43)
May 12
Weather Report
Weather Report
100
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(37)
Jan 1
Nina Simone
Here Comes the Sun
60
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(31)
1971
Jorge López Ruiz
Bronca Buenos Aires
78
user score
(28)
Jan
Freddie Hubbard
Straight Life
100
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(25)
1971
Akira Ishikawa & Count Buffalos
African Rock
79
user score
(24)
Jan 1
Osibisa
Osibisa
90
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(20)
1971
Charles Mingus
Blue Bird
71
user score
(19)
1971
John Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders
Live in Seattle
80
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(17)
Nov 15
Marion Brown
Afternoon of a Georgia Faun
80
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(16)
1971
Maria Bethânia
A Tua Presença
73
user score
(16)
Jan
The Keith Tippett Group
Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(15)
1971
Freddie Hubbard & İlhan Mimaroğlu
Sing Me a Song of Songmy
40
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(15)
1971
Black Unity Trio
Al - Fatihah
77
user score
(14)
Mar
Nucleus
We'll Talk About It Later
80
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(14)
1971
Charlie Mingus
Pithycanthropus Erectus
69
user score
(13)
1971
George Russell
Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature
100
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(13)
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Feb
Bill Evans
From Left to Right
40
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(12)
1971
Gato Barbieri
Fénix
90
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(11)
1971
Duke Ellington
The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse
90
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(11)
1971
Freddie Hubbard
First Light
90
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(11)
Jul
Wayne Shorter
Odyssey of Iska
60
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(10)
May 1
Bobby Hutcherson
San Francisco
90
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(10)
1971
Gil Scott-Heron with Pretty Purdie and the Playboys
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised / Home Is Where the Hatred Is
87
user score
(9)
Oct
Bobby Hutcherson
Head On
60
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(9)
Sep 1
Bill Evans
The Bill Evans Album
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(9)
1971
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(8)
Jul
King Curtis
Live at Fillmore West
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(8)
Apr 7
Calvin Keys
Shawn-Neeq
100
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(8)
Feb
Ornette Coleman
Love Call
60
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(8)
Sep 5
浅川マキ [Maki Asakawa]
Maki II
75
user score
(7)
May
George Benson
Beyond the Blue Horizon
100
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(7)
1971
Arthur Fiedler
Superstar
74
user score
(6)
1971
Fläsket Brinner
Fläsket Brinner
59
user score
(5)
Mar
Grant Green
Alive!
80
critic score
(1)
64
user score
(4)
1971
Jacques Thollot
Quand le son devient aigu, jeter la girafe à la mer.
71
user score
(4)
1971
Steve Marcus, Sonny Sharrock, Miroslav Vitous & Daniel Humair
Green Line
79
user score
(3)
1971
Music Inc.
Music Inc.
77
user score
(3)
1971
Jimmy McGriff
Groove Grease
70
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(3)
1971
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express
A Better Land
90
critic score
(1)
66
user score
(3)
Mar 16
Paul Van Gysegem Sextet
Aorta
70
user score
(3)
1971
Art Ensemble of Chicago
With Fontenella Bass
73
user score
(3)
Apr 23
Jorge López Ruiz 5
De Prepo
76
user score
(2)
1971
Nancy Wilson
But Beautiful
80
critic score
(1)
59
user score
(2)
1971
Percy Faith
Jesus Christ Superstar
78
user score
(2)
Dec 13
Grant Green
The Final Comedown
60
critic score
(1)
61
user score
(2)
1971
Misha Mengelberg, John Tchicai, Han Bennink & Derek Bailey
Fragments
41
user score
(2)
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