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Jerome Wilson's Best Recordings of 2021

By Jerome Wilson
December 16, 2021
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Despite all the continuing crises in the world, great creative music flourished in 2021 as it always seems to do. There were some artists like Wadada Leo Smith and Vijay Iyer who continued their regular flow of excellent releases, other veterans like Charnett Moffett and Pharoah Sanders who came out with powerful statements and new voices like Rodrigo Faina and Marques Carroll who made impressive debuts.

Charnett Moffett New Love Motema	John Daversa All Without Words -Variations inspired by Loren Tiger Turn	Floating Points Promises Luaka Bop
William Parker Mayan Space Station AUM Fidelity	Jeff Lederer Eightfold Path Little (i) Music	Wadada Leo Smith The Chicago Symphonies TUM
Barry Altschul Long Tall Sunshine Not Two	Mary LaRose Out Here Little (i) Music	Vijay Iyer Uneasy ECM
Rodrigo Faina Different Roots Red Piano Records	Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson Searching For The Disappeared Hour Pyroclastic	Marques Carroll The Ancestors' Call Self-Produced
Charles Lloyd Tone Poem Blue Note	Andrew Cyrille The News ECM	Broken Shadows Broken Shadows Intakt

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