15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

David Brent Johnson (Jazz Director, WFIU [Bloomington, IN])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Moses Boyd, Dark Matter (Exodus)
  2. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  3. Shabaka and the Ancestors, We Are Sent Here by History (Impulse)
  4. Artemis, Artemis (Blue Note)
  5. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis, The Music of Wayne Shorter (Blue Engine)
  6. Christian McBride, The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons (Mack Avenue)
  7. Lakecia Benjamin, Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope)
  8. Charlie Ballantine, Vonnegut (Green Mind)
  9. Monika Herzig, Eternal Dance (Savant)
  10. Lafayette Gilchrist, Now (Lafayette Gilchrist Music)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Tubby Hayes, The Complete Fontana Albums (1961-1969) (Decca -19)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  3. Hank Mobley, The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70 (Mosaic -19)

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