15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Karl Ackerman (All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nate Wooley, Seven Storey Mountain VI (Pyroclastic)
  2. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  3. Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, Dimensional Stardust (International Anthem)
  4. Bruno Parrinha/Carlos Santos/Abdul Moimeme, A Silent Play in the Shadow of Power (Creative Sources)
  5. AVA Trio, Digging the Sand (Marocco Music -19)
  6. Aruán Ortiz With Andrew Cyrille and Mauricio Herrera, Inside Rhythmic Falls (Intakt)
  7. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  8. Ayman Fanous & Frances-Marie Uitti, Negoum (Mode -19)
  9. Adam Berenson, Every Beginning Is a Sequel (Dream Play)
  10. The Ogún Meji Duo, #Blacklivesmatter (CFG Multimedia -14)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Horace Tapscott With the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions, 1976 (Dark Tree)
  2. Nina Simone, Fodder on My Wings (1982, Verve)
  3. Albert Ayler, 1965: Spirits Rejoice & Bells Revisited (Ezz-thetics)

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