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Critics' Highest Rated Avant-Garde Jazz Albums of All Time
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
92
critic score
(7)
Matana Roberts
Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
90
critic score
(6)
Wayne Shorter Quartet
Without a Net
89
critic score
(7)
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
(9)
Nala Sinephro
Space 1.8
86
critic score
(6)
Binker and Moses
Feeding the Machine
86
critic score
(10)
Kamasi Washington
Heaven and Earth
84
critic score
(32)
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 All Time
Charles Mingus
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
91
user score
(994)
Miles Davis
Bitches Brew
90
user score
(887)
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme
90
user score
(1,040)
Pharoah Sanders
Karma
89
user score
(320)
John Coltrane
The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording
89
user score
(146)
Alice Coltrane
Journey in Satchidananda
87
user score
(333)
John Coltrane
Ascension
86
user score
(233)
Ornette Coleman
The Shape of Jazz To Come
85
user score
(287)
Don Cherry
Brown Rice
85
user score
(34)
Carla Bley & Paul Haines
Escalator Over the Hill
84
user score
(34)
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Recent Avant-Garde Jazz Albums
Mary Halvorson
Belladonna
86
critic score
(3)
Mary Halvorson
Amaryllis
85
critic score
(3)
Ches Smith
Interpret It Well
80
critic score
(2)
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling & Andreas Werliin
Ghosted
80
critic score
(4)
Alabaster DePlume
GOLD – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love
81
critic score
(7)
Shake Stew
Heat
80
critic score
(1)
The Saxsquatch
Schmidt-Swartz & Saxsquatch
Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double
March
Binker and Moses
Feeding the Machine
86
critic score
(10)
Lynn Avery & Cole Pulice
To Live & Die in Space & Time
77
critic score
(1)
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Critics' Top Avant-Garde Jazz Artists
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