50 Favorite Recordings of 2021*
Artifacts. Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Mike Reed. ... And Then There's This. Astral Spirits
Patricia Brennan. Maquishti. Valley of Search
Roy Brooks. Understanding. Reel To Real
George Cables. Too Close For Comfort. HighNote Records
Caminero Trio. Al Toque. Karonte
Àlex Cassanyes. Composició II. UnderPool
Bill Charlap Trio. Street Of Dreams. Blue Note Records
Clasijazz Valparaíso Big Band. Casijazz Fundación Valparaíso
John Coltrane. A Love Supreme - Live In Seattle. Impulse!
Sylvie Courvoisier - Mary Halvorson. Searching for the Disappeared Hour. Pyroclastic
Dr. Lonnie Smith. Breathe. Blue Note
Scott DuBois. Summer Water. Watertone Music
Bill Evans Trio. On a Friday Evening. Craft
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & the London Symphony Orchestra. Promises. Luaka Bop
Michael Formanek - Peter Formanek. Dyads. Out Of Your Head
María Grand. Reciprocity. Biophilia Records
Roy Hargrove - Mulgrew Miller. In Harmony. Resonance
Abdullah Ibrahim. Solotude: My Journey, My Vision. Gearbox Records
Ethan Iverson & Umbria Jazz Orchestra, Bud Powell in the 21st Century. Sunnyside
Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey. Uneasy. ECM
Jazz Worms. Squirmin'. Capri
Sheila Jordan, Comes Love: Lost Session 1960. Capri
Charlotte Keefe. Right Here, Right Now. Discus Records
Martín Leiton. Desde a Bajo. UnderPool
James Brandon Lewis - Red Lily Quintet. Jesup Wagon. TAO Forms
Charles Lloyd & the Marvels. Tone Poem. Blue Note
Jean-Marie Machado Quartet. Majakka. La Buissonne
Georgia Mancio - Alan Broadbent. Quiet Is The Star. Roomspin Records
Ossi Maristo. Arc. Eclipse Music / Supersounds Music Oy
Marco Martínez. NOI. Errabal
Makaya McCraven. Deciphering the Message. Blue Note
Tomoko Omura. Branches Vol. 2. Outside In Music
Moisés P. Sánchez. Bach (Re)Inventions. MarchVivo
Gretchen Parlato. Flor. Edition Records
Marcelo Peralta. Northwest Wind. Mariana Potenza y Juan Calvi
Guillem Plana, Aleix Forts, David Viñolas. NUCLI TRIO. Errabal
Alex Riel, Bo Stief, Carsten Dahl. Our Songs. Storyville Records
Sara Serpa. Intimate Strangers. Biophilia Records
Fran Serrano Quintet. 0202. ESMUC
Archie Shepp / Jason Morán. Let My People Go. Archieball
Ches Smith & We All Break. Path of Seven Colors. Pyroclastic Records
Sons Of Kemet. Black To The Future. Impulse!
Kevin Sun. <3 Bird. Endectomorph Music
Arthur Taylor, Marc Cary, Tyler Mitchell, Abraham Burton, Willie Williams. Taylors Wailers [sic] Live In NYC (Birdland, 1992). The Harlem Sessions / Marc Cary
UNDP Collective. Esto Sí Se Llama Querer. UnderPool
UNDP Collective. UNDERPOOL 5 Vol 2. UnderPool
Angel Unzu Cuarteto. Orain. Moskito Rekords
Wadada Leo Smith’s Great Lakes Quartet. The Chicago Symphonies. TUM
Wadada Leo Smith, Jack DeJohnette, Vijay Iyer. A Love Sonnet for Billie Holiday. TUM
Anna Webber. Idiom. Pi
Mareike Wiening. Future Memories. Greenleaf Music
*As published by Mirian Arbalejo on December 31st 2021.
A shorten list was presented to the Jazz Critics Poll (The Arts Fuse).
