Stereogum's 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2019

This wasn’t a year of radical transformation in the world of jazz. There was no single breakout star, and no explosion like the sudden realization last year that some really major shit was going down in London. But a tremendous amount of extraordinarily good music was released, and there was something for just about every […]

Published: December 09, 2019 20:00 Source

# 1

Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise by Jaimie Branch

Album • Oct 11 / 2019 Avant-Garde Jazz Spiritual Jazz

# 2

Polyhymnia by Yazz Ahmed

Album • Oct 11 / 2019 Spiritual Jazz

# 3

Jeremy Pelt The Artist by Jeremy Pelt

Album • Feb 08 / 2019 Post-Bop

# 4

Fyah by Theon Cross

Album • Feb 15 / 2019 Afro-Jazz Jazz-Funk

# 5

Ancestral Recall by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

Album • Mar 22 / 2019 Jazz Fusion

# 6

Thoughts Become Things by Victor Gould

Album • Jul 12 / 2019 Jazz

# 7

Driftglass by SEED Ensemble

Album • Feb 08 / 2019 Jazz

# 8

COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis by Matana Roberts

Album • Oct 18 / 2019 Avant-Garde Jazz Free Jazz

# 9

The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul by Branford Marsalis

Album • Mar 01 / 2019 Post-Bop

# 10

Glitter Wolf by Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom

Album • Feb 01 / 2019 Jazz Fusion