Best jazz of 2017

  1. Kamasi Washington

  2. Alfa Mist

  3. Jaimie Branch

  4. Tony Allen

  5. William Parker Quartets

  6. Chicago Edge Ensemble

  7. Irreversible Entanglements

  8. WILDFLOWER

  9. Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band

  10. Mike Reed

  11. Yazz Ahmed

  12. The Comet Is Coming

  13. Mark de Clive-Lowe

  14. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

  15. Braxton Cook

  16. YolanDa Brown

  17. Alexander Hawkins

  18. Abstract Orchestra

  19. Nubya Garcia

  20. Colin Stetson

  21. The Heliocentrics

  22. The Necks

  23. Cécile McLorin Salvant

  24. Blue Note All-Stars

  25. Charles Lloyd

  26. JD Allen

  27. Harriet Tubman

  28. Vijay Iyer Sextet, Vijay Iyer

  29. Tyshawn Sorey

  30. Jazzmeia Horn

  31. King Capisce

  32. Zara Mcfarlane

  33. Asylon Terra

  34. Amir ElSaffar, Rivers of Sound

  35. fox capture plan

  36. Hieroglyphic Being, Sarathy Korwar & Shabaka

  37. Mammal Hands

  38. Miguel Zenón

  39. Ahmad Jamal

  40. Kirk Knuffke

  41. Agustí Martínez, Eduard Altaba & Quicu Samsó

  42. Steve Coleman's Natal Eclipse

  43. Melanie De Biasio

  44. Craig Taborn

  45. Diana Krall

  46. Chris Thile, Brad Mehldau

  47. Phronesis, Julian Argüelles, Frankfurt Radio Bigband

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