15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Phil Freeman (Stereogum, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, Stereogum)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
  2. Irreversible Entanglements, Who Sent You? (International Anthem)
  3. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  4. Nduduzo Makhathini, Modes of Communication: Letters From the Underworlds (Blue Note)
  5. Aaron Diehl, The Vagabond (Mack Avenue)
  6. Black Art Jazz Collective, Ascension (HighNote)
  7. Ndabo Zulu & Umgidi Ensemble, Queen Nandi: The African Suite (Mageba Music)
  8. Shabaka and the Ancestors, We Are Sent Here by History (Impulse)
  9. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Axiom (Ropeadope)
  10. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Molecular (Intakt)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Cecil Taylor and Tony Oxley, Birdland, Neuburg 2011 (Fundacja Sluchaj)
  3. Pharoah Sanders, Live in Paris 1975: Lost ORTF Recordings (Transversales Disque)

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