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Greentea Peng: Man Made review – featherlight, even in anger

Hip-hop, jazz and righteous reggae blend elegantly in the singer-songwriter’s message-driven debut album

Black Midi review – punk-jazz power is a recipe for success

The London rockers pack a punch with a thunderous recital of their new album. Shame about the sound…

Jim Snidero: Live at the Deer Head Inn review – a glorious sense of swing

Snidero and band take comfort music to the next level

Black Midi: Cavalcade review – freakish parade of prog-jazz extremity

There’s a impressive maelstrom of moods on the Mercury nominees’ new album, building to a fantastical, absurdist whole

Ches Smith and We All Break: Path of Seven Colors review – a tour de force of jazz innovation

Haitian traditions inspire the percussionist’s exhilarating hybrid of melodic drums, evocative vocals and fiery improvisation

Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future review – an eloquent dance between anger and joy

Shabaka Hutchings and co’s urgent fourth album lifts the spirits and feeds the soul

Sam Braysher Trio: Dance Little Lady, Dance Little Man review – 11 tales of the unexpected

The alto saxophonist and his rhythm section are on top form in this collection of radically inventive remakes

Jaubi: Nafs at Peace review – Pakistani band battle ego with improv

Jaubi continue to stretch the boundaries of Indian classical music using guitars, synths and multi-genre guests

Moses Boyd: Live from the Barbican review – master of the universe

The producer-drummer leads from the back in a virtuosic set that draws on last year’s cross-pollinating Dark Matter

Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey: Uneasy review – fired-up improv

Touching on both Cole Porter and Eric Garner, this long-time trio invigorate bop with thrilling, socially conscious free jazz

Group Sounds Four & Five: Black & White Raga review – the sound of buoyant optimism

Two previously unreleased sessions by Henry Lowther’s mid-60s group represent a missing link in British free-form jazz

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, LSO: Promises review – extraordinary

Five years in the making, this breathtaking album transcends the genres each of its three collaborators bring to the table

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels: Tone Poem review – heady ideas from a celebrated jazz elder

The third album in this partnership sees the tenor saxophonist deftly occupied in takes on Ornette Coleman, Leonard Cohen and the Beach Boys

Tommy Flanagan: In His Own Sweet Time review – a masterly touch

He played for everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to John Coltrane, but solo the pianist is a truly captivating force

Pauline Anna Strom: Angel Tears in Sunlight review – synth iconoclast’s glorious final album

Strom’s first album in 30 years – and last, following her death in December – is a quiet riot of digitally manipulated drones and noise

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