In alpha order by artist name, my favorite recordings of creative music

in the Black American tradition.

Artifacts Trio, …and then there’s this

Roy Brooks, Understanding 

Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Live at the Village Vanguard Volume II (MDW NTR)

Mark Feldman, Sounding Point

Irreversible Entanglements, Open The Gates

David Leon, Aire De Agua

James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, Jesup Wagon

Dave Liebman Expansions, Selflessness

William Parker, Migration of Silence Into & Out of the Tone World

Diego Rivera, Indigenous

Ches Smith and We All Break, Path Of Seven Colors

Sons Of Kemet, Black To The Future

Stringers and Struts, Stringers and Struts

Kevin Sun, <3 Bird

Craig Taborn, Shadow Plays

Henry Threadgill Zooid, Poof

Thumbscrew, Never Is Enough

Miguel Zenón, Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman

various artists, John Zorn's Bagatelles