MELHORES ÁLBUNS DE JAZZ DE 2021 PARA A DOWNBEAT

Os críticos da DownBeat classificam os discos resenhados em uma escala que varia de 1 a 5 estrelas. Os classificados como 5 estrelas, 4 ½ estrelas e 4 estrelas foram listados como os melhores lançamentos de 2021. Segue a lista :

5 ESTRELAS

DJANGO BATES - Tenacity

VERONICA SWIFT - This Bitter Earth (na foto)

JIM SNIDERO - Live At The Deer Head Inn

ISAIAH COLLIER & THE CHOSEN FEW - Cosmic Transitions

WOLLNY/PARISIEN/LEFEBRVE/LILLINGER – XXXX (Resenha publicada neste blog em 23/10/2021)

KENNY GARRETT -Sounds From The Ancestors

THEO CROKER - BLK2LIFE // A FUTURE PAST

 

4 ½ ESTRELAS

DAYNA STEPHENS QUARTET - Right Now! Live At The Village (Resenha publicada neste blog em 07/06/2021)

 TIM BERNE/MATT MITCHELL DUO - Spiders

GUY MINTUS TRIO - A Gershwin Playground

KEITH JARRETT - Budapest Concert (Resenha publicada neste blog em 05/04/2021)

BINKER AND MOSES - Escape The Flames

DON BRADEN/JORIS TEEPE QUARTET -In The Spirit Of Herbie Hancock

JOE LOVANO TRIO TAPESTRY - Garden Of Expression

JASON MORAN - The Sound Will Tell You (Resenha publicada neste blog em 28/06/2021)

JAKOB BRO - Uma Elmo

LEON LEE DORSEY - Thank You Mr. Mabern

JOE LOVANO & DAVE DOUGLAS’ SOUND PRINTS - Other Worlds (Resenha publicada neste blog em 01/11/2021)

MARK O’CONNOR - Markology II

BEN GOLDBERG - Everything Happens To Be.

GLENN CLOSE/TED NASH - Transformation

ALEX SIPIAGIN – Upstream (Resenha publicada neste blog em 29/11/2021)

ADRIAN YOUNGE & ALISHAHEED MUHAMMAD/JOÃO DONATO - João Donato JID 007

COCHEMEA - Vol. II: Baca Sewa

BARRE PHILLIPS - Thirty Years In Between

BUTCHER BROWN - Encore

ARTURO O’FARRILL & THE AFRO LATIN JAZZ ENSEMBLE -…dreaming in lions…

FRANK KIMBROUGH - Ancestors

BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory

FRANCISCO MELA FEAT.MATTHEW SHIPP AND WILLIAMPARKER - Music Frees Our Souls Vol. 1

MARC JOHNSON - Overpass

PETER MCEACHERN - Code 2

NICHOLAS PAYTON - Smoke Sessions

HELEN SUNG - Quartet+

JARED SCHONIG - Two Takes Vol. I , Two Takes Vol. II

 

4 ESTRELAS

MELODY GARDOT - Sunset In The Blue

ROB MAZUREK EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA - Dimensional Stardust

MARSHALL ALLEN/ROSCOE MITCHELL/MILFORD GRAVES/SCOTT ROBINSON - Flow States (Resenha publicada neste blog em 19/06/2021)

THE ROYAL BOPSTERS - Party Of Four (Resenha publicada neste blog em 01/12/2021)

LUBA MASON - Triangle

TANI TABBAL TRIO - Now Then (Resenha publicada neste blog em 02/10/2021)

ALAN BROADBENT TRIO - Trio In Motion (Resenha publicada neste blog em 28/05/2021)

MARIUS NESET - Tributes

MARSHALL GILKES TRIO - Waiting To Continue (Resenha publicada neste blog em 18/05/2021)

DELVON LAMARR ORGAN TRIO - I Told You So

THEO BLECKMANN & THE WESTERLIES - This Land

RHYTHM CITY - Rhythm City

ELVIN BISHOP & CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE - 100 Years Of Blues

PAPO VÁZQUEZ & MIGHTY PIRATES TROUBADOURS - Chapter 10: Breaking Cover

THE AWAKENING ORCHESTRA - volume ii: to call her to a higher plain

DOXAS BROTHERS - The Circle

FRANK WOESTE - Pocket Rhapsody II

ROSCOE MITCHELL & MIKE REED - The Ritual And The Dance

ANGEL BAT DAWID AND THA BROTHERHOOD - Live

MARQUIS HILL - Soul Sign

RUSS LOSSING - Metamorphism

THE WARRIORS OF THE WONDERFUL SOUND - Soundpath

IVO PERELMAN - The Garden Of Jewels

MATT PIET (pentimento)

ARCHIE SHEPP & JASON MORAN - Let My People Go (Resenha publicada neste blog em 22/10/2021)

CHARLES LLOYD & THE MARVELS - Tone Poem (Resenha publicada neste blog em 12/07/2021)

CHRIS POTTER - Sunrise Reprise (Resenha publicada neste blog em 31/05/2021)

SHAI MAESTRO – Human (Resenha publicada neste blog em 05/07/2021)

LARRY CORYELL & PHILIP CATHERINE - Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic XI: The Last Call (Resenha publicada neste blog em 13/09/2021)

LOGAN RICHARDSON - Afrofuturism

R+R=NOW - R+R=NOW - Live

CHRISTIAN LILLINGER/CHRISTOPHER DELL/JONAS WESTERGAARD TRIO - Beats

MARK FELDMAN - Sounding Point

TONY TIXIER - I Am Human

LEO GENOVESE - Sin Tiempo

MICHAEL DEASE - Give It All You Got

SACHAL VASANDANI/ ROMAIN COLLIN - Midnight Shelter

PAT METHENY - Road To The Sun (Resenha publicada neste blog em 19/07/2021)

REGGIE QUINERLY - New York Nowhere (Resenha publicada neste blog em 20/04/2021)

GUSTAVO CORTINAS - Desafio Candente

JANE IRA BLOOM/ MARK HELIAS - Some Kind Of Tomorrow

LINA ALLEMANO FOUR - Vegetables

VINCENT HERRING - Preaching To The Choir

THUMBSCREW - Never Is Enough

MICHAEL FORMANEK - Imperfect Measures

DAMON LOCKS BLACK MONUMENT ENSEMBLE - Now

NOAH HAIDU - Slowly: Song For Keith Jarrett (Resenha publicada neste blog em 26/06/2021)

BRIAN CHARETTE - Power From The Air (Resenha publicada neste blog em 11/10/2021)

SPIKE WILNER TRIO - Aliens & Wizards

TOBIAS MEINHART - The Painter

JAMES FRANCIES - Purest Form

THE CITY CHAMPS - Luna ’68

JAMES BRANDON LEWIS RED LILY QUINTET - Jesup Wagon

EVAN PARKER QUARTET - All Knavery And Collusion

BROKEN SHADOWS - Broken Shadows

KEVIN HAYS/BEN STREET/BILLY HART - All Things Are

RAHSAAN BARBER - Mosaic

ICP SEPTET + JORIS - ROELOFS + TERRIE EX - Komen & Gaan

JOHN HART - Checkmate

REMPIS PERCUSSION QUARTET - Sud Des Alpes

AMARO FREITAS – Sankofa

STEPHAN MICUS - Winter’s End

RICHARD X BENNETT RXB3

TODD COCHRAN TC3 - Then And Again, Here And Now

KEITH BROWN TRIO - African Ripples

THE MODERN JAZZ TRIO WITH JERRY BERGONZI - Straight Gonz

ANTHONY BRAXTON 12 COMP (ZIM) 2017

PATRICIA BARBER - Clique

ROY BROOKS - Understanding

MIKE CLARK / MICHAEL ZILBER - Mike Drop

LARS DANIELSSON LIBERETTO - Cloudland

SAM PILNICK’S NONET PROJECT - The Adler Suite

BEN AYLON - Xalam

ALCHEMY SOUND PROJECT - Afrika Love

PIERRICK PÉDRON - Fifty-Fifty New York Sessions (Resenha publicada neste blog em 23/11/2021)

PETE RODRIGUEZ - Obstacles

FRANCESCO CINIGLIO - The Locomotive Suite

ARTURO O’FARRILL AFRO LATIN JAZZ ORCHESTRA - Virtual Birdland

SOMI - Zenzile: The Reimagination Of Miriam Makeba

RENEE ROSNES - Kinds Of Love

ANGEL BAT DAWID - Hush Harbor Mixtape Vol. 1

JOEL FRAHM - The Bright Side

PRISM QUARTET - Heritage/Evolution Volume 2

LYLE MAYS – Eberhard (Resenha publicada neste blog em 13/12/2021)

TIMO LASSY - Trio

JOHANNES WALLMANN - Elegy For An Undiscovered Species

BOB MINTZER & WDR BIG BAND COLOGNE - Soundscapes

JOHN CHIN FEATURING RICHARD JULIAN - Anything Mose!

JEREMIAH CYMERMAN - Citadles & Sanctuaries

JAZZMEIA HORN AND HER NOBLE FORCE - Dear Love

AMIR ELSAFFAR RIVERS OF SOUND - The Other Shore (Resenha publicada neste blog em 05/10/2021)

KATE MCGARRY + KEITH GANZ ENSEMBLE - What To Wear In The Dark

ERIC BIBB - Dear America

JEFF LEDERER - Eightfold Path

MARY LAROSE - Out Here

RUSSELL GUNN & THE ROYAL KRUNK JAZZ ORKESTRA - The Sirius Mystery

LUCY YEGHIAZARYAN/VANISHA GOULD - In Her Words

ELIANE ELIAS - Mirror Mirror

BRASUKA - A Vida Com Paixão

BRANDON GOLDBERG - In Good Time

CARLOS HENRIQUEZ - The South Bronx Story

KEN VANDERMARK - The Field Within A Line

BECCA STEVENS & THE SECRET TRIO - Becca Stevens & The Secret Trio

JONATHAN BLAKE - Homeward Bound

NUBYA GARCIA - Source+We Move

KAZEMDE GEORGE - I Insist

MAKAYA MCCRAVEN - Deciphering The Message

ROVA - The Circumference Of Reason

OMAR SOSA/SECKOU KEITA - Suba

KEVIN SUN - <3 Bird

RAPHAEL WRESSNIG & IGOR PRADO - Groove & Good Times

STACI GRIESBACH - My George Jones Songbook