Jazz Albums of the Year 2013

The Top 20 best jazz albums of the past year


Another great year for innovative jazz, crafted against tough times for the music.


1.             Ravi Coltrane - Spirit Fiction (Blue Note)

2.             Billy Hart - All Our Reasons (ECM)

3.             Keith Jarrett - Sleeper (ECM) 2CD

4.             Kenny Garrett - Seeds From The Underground (Mack Avenue)

5.              Pat Metheny - Unity Band (Nonesuch)

6.              Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio (Blue Note)

7.              Marc Johnson / Elaine Elias - Swept Away (ECM)

8.              Dave Douglas - Be Still (Greenleaf)

9.               David Kikoski - Consequences (Criss Cross)

10.           Bobby Hutcherson - Somewhere In The Night (Kind of Blue)

11.            Christian Scott - Christian aTunde Adjuah (Concord Jazz) 2CD

12.              Wallace Roney - Home (HighNote)

13.            Brad Mehldau - Ode (Nonesuch)

14.             Branford Marsalis - 4 Mf's Playin' Tunes (Marsalis Music)

15.            Clarence Penn - Dali In Cobble Hill (Criss Cross)

16.             Tom Harrell - No 5 (High Note)

17.             Marcus Miller - Renaissence (Concord Jazz)

18.             Chad McCullough - Urban Nightingale (Origin)

19.             Opus 5 - Pentasonic (Criss Cross)

20.            Johnathan Blake - Eleventh Hour (Tzadik)


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