Polarization is an album by American jazz trombonist and composer Julian Priester recorded in 1977 and released on the ECM label.
Reception
The editors of AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars, with reviewer Richard S. Ginell writing: "This is an often engaging record from a trombonist too seldom heard as a leader".
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings noted that the album finds the musicians playing "in a spacious modern idiom, with carefully deployed electronics," and stated that "individual pieces are atmospheric but without sacrifice of linear energies."
A writer for Billboard called the music "lovely, often haunting," and commented: "Priester's flutters, stops, deep tones glide easily through the six compositions."
Writing for Between Sound and Space, Tyran Grillo remarked: "Polarization delivers in its many moods and emotional travels. The musicians don't so much feed off as feed into one another, nourishing a delicate conversation in which agreement is the norm. Their harmonies are tender, the synergy relaxed and intuitive, acute yet soft around the edges."