15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Steve Greenlee (JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Nate Wooley, Seven Storey Mountain VI (Pyroclastic)
  2. Benny Rubin Jr. Quartet, Know Say or See (Benny Jr. Music)
  3. Kenny Kotwitz & the LA Jazz Quintet, When Lights Are Low (PMRecords)
  4. Øyvind Skarbø/Fredrik Ljungkvist/Kris Davis/Ole Morten Vågan, Inland Empire (Clean Feed)
  5. Eric Revis, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
  6. 3D Jazz Trio, I Love to See You Smile (DIVA)
  7. Massimo Biolcati, Incontre (Sounderscore)
  8. Rich Halley-Matthew Shipp-Michael Bisio-Newman Taylor Baker, The Shape of Things (Pine Eagle)
  9. Kaze & Ikue Mori, Sand Storm (Libra)
  10. The Nels Cline Singers, Share the Wealth (Blue Note)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Dexter Gordon Quartet, Live in Chateauvallon 1978 (Elemental Music)
  2. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note)
  3. Bob James, Once Upon a Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions (Resonance)

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