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Critics' Highest Rated Avant-Garde Jazz Albums of All Time
Matana Roberts
Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
90
critic score
(6)
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
89
critic score
(9)
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra
Promises
88
critic score
(25)
Matana Roberts
COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis
88
critic score
(5)
Kamasi Washington
The Epic
87
critic score
(10)
Nala Sinephro
Space 1.8
86
critic score
(6)
Binker and Moses
Feeding the Machine
86
critic score
(10)
Sarathy Korwar
KALAK
84
critic score
(5)
Kamasi Washington
Heaven and Earth
84
critic score
(33)
Matana Roberts
Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libre
83
critic score
(7)
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Users' Highest Rated Avant-Garde Jazz Albums of 2023
Fire! Orchestra
Echoes
79
user score
(32)
Desire Marea
On the Romance of Being
75
user score
(38)
EABS Meets Jaubi
In Search of a Better Tomorrow
75
user score
(28)
The Necks
Travel
71
user score
(91)
Mette Henriette
Drifting
70
user score
(49)
Sam Gendel
COOKUP
65
user score
(26)
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Recent Avant-Garde Jazz Albums
Eli Keszler
Live
EABS Meets Jaubi
In Search of a Better Tomorrow
Fire! Orchestra
Echoes
80
critic score
(1)
Desire Marea
On the Romance of Being
73
critic score
(5)
Pharoah Sanders
Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1980
Roots Magic
Long Old Road
Powers / Pulice / Rolin
Prism
The Necks
Travel
86
critic score
(4)
Sam Gendel
COOKUP
75
critic score
(4)
LIFECYCLES
LIFECYCLES Volumes 1 & 2: Now! and Forever More Honoring Bobby Hutcherson
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Critics' Top Avant-Garde Jazz Artists
Matana Roberts
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