Pitchfork's 30 Best Jazz and Experimental Albums of 2023

Our favorite unfamiliar, unsettling, provocative, transgressive, spaced-out, psychedelic, surreal, meditative, and confrontational albums of the year.

Published: December 14, 2023 14:00 Source

# 1
Album • Nov 17 / 2023 New Age Ambient
# 2
Album • Mar 24 / 2023 Ghazal Chamber Jazz
# 3
Album • Apr 28 / 2023 American Primitivism
# 4
Album • Jun 23 / 2023 Ambient Americana Chamber Folk
# 5
Album • Oct 06 / 2023 Jazz-Funk
# 6
Album • Nov 17 / 2023
# 7
Album • Aug 04 / 2023 Electronic Progressive Electronic
# 8
Album • Oct 13 / 2023 Drone Minimalism
# 10
Album • May 26 / 2023 Ambient
# 11
Album • Apr 14 / 2023 Jazz Fusion
# 12
Album • Jun 16 / 2023 Ambient Chamber Jazz New Age
# 13
Album • Sep 08 / 2023 Avant-Garde Jazz Jazz Poetry Spiritual Jazz
# 14
Album • Aug 25 / 2023 Avant-Garde Jazz
# 16
Album • Jul 21 / 2023 Ambient
# 17
Album • Oct 13 / 2023 Neo-Psychedelia
# 18
Album • Sep 22 / 2023 Ambient
# 19
Album • Sep 29 / 2023 Nu Jazz ECM Style Jazz
# 20
Album • Mar 10 / 2023 Ambient Electroacoustic Sound Collage
# 21
Album • Mar 10 / 2023 Soul Ambient
# 22
Album • Apr 28 / 2023 Electroacoustic Ambient
# 23
Album • Apr 14 / 2023 Avant-Garde Jazz Post-Minimalism
# 24
Album • Jun 16 / 2023 Post-Bop
# 26
Album • Apr 28 / 2023 Electroacoustic Sound Collage Field Recordings
# 27
Album • Mar 10 / 2023 Jazz Fusion Chamber Jazz
# 28
Album • Oct 20 / 2023 Post-Minimalism
# 29
Album • Oct 13 / 2023 Ambient Electroacoustic
# 30
Album • Jan 17 / 2023 Ambient Modern Classical