15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Dave Cantor (DownBeat, The Chicago Reader)

NEW RELEASES

  1. The Necks, Three (Northern Spy)
  2. The Nels Cline Singers, Share the Wealth (Blue Note)
  3. Eric Revis, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
  4. Thumbscrew, The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform)
  5. Aaron Parks, Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man (Ropeadope)
  6. Nduduzo Makhathini, Modes of Communication: Letters From the Underworlds (Blue Note)
  7. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  8. Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Free Hoops (Intakt)
  9. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  10. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Horace Tapscott With the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions, 1976 (Dark Tree)
  2. Bob James, Once Upon a Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance)
  3. Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe, Duo Exchange: Complete Sessions (1972, Survival)

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN