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Avant-Garde Jazz
Critics' Highest Rated Avant-Garde Jazz Albums of All Time
Matana Roberts
Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
90
critic score
(6)
Wayne Shorter Quartet
Without a Net
89
critic score
(7)
Matana Roberts
COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis
88
critic score
(5)
Kamasi Washington
The Epic
87
critic score
(9)
Kamasi Washington
Heaven and Earth
84
critic score
(32)
Matana Roberts
Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libre
83
critic score
(7)
Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven
We're New Again - A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven
83
critic score
(12)
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey
Uneasy
83
critic score
(6)
Shabaka and the Ancestors
We Are Sent Here By History
83
critic score
(13)
Vijay Iyer Trio
Accelerando
82
critic score
(6)
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Users' Highest Rated Avant-Garde Jazz Albums of 2021
Jaubi
Nafs at Peace
79
user score
(74)
Nala Sinephro
Space 1.8
76
user score
(83)
Esperanza Spalding
SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB
76
user score
(25)
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble
Now
75
user score
(27)
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey
Uneasy
73
user score
(80)
Pino Palladino & Blake Mills
Notes With Attachments
72
user score
(70)
Eli Keszler
Icons
70
user score
(33)
Fire!
Defeat
65
user score
(46)
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Recent Avant-Garde Jazz Albums
Paula Shocron / William Parker / Pablo Díaz
El Templo
Esperanza Spalding
SONGWRIGHTS APOTHECARY LAB
78
critic score
(2)
Peter Knight & Australian Art Orchestra
Crossed & Recrossed
Nala Sinephro
Space 1.8
88
critic score
(3)
Moritz Von Oswald Trio
Dissent
73
critic score
(1)
Cochemea
Vol. II: Baca Sewa
80
critic score
(1)
Archie Shepp
Live in Paris (1974)
Eli Keszler
Icons
75
critic score
(1)
Jaubi
Nafs at Peace
76
critic score
(1)
Maya Dunietz
Free the Dolphin
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Critics' Top Avant-Garde Jazz Artists
Matana Roberts
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