Best Beyond Recordings of 2021

The good stuff

Beyond is a category that DownBeat magazine uses when it evaluates albums that don’t clearly fit into jazz and blues—it’s where they put everything from Sting to Kendrick Lamarr. For me, at least this year, it’s a useful way to actually get past jazz and classical music, which I listen to professionally, and the things that speak to me in an intuitive, …