15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Willard Jenkins (The Independent Ear, WPFW "Jazz & Justice Radio" [Washington DC], JazzTimes, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jimmy Heath, Love Letter (Verve)
  2. Terri Lyne Carrington + Social Science, Waiting Game (Motema -19)
  3. Lakecia Benjamin, Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope)
  4. Immanuel Wilkins, Omega (Blue Note)
  5. Nduduzo Makhathini, Modes of Communication: Letters From the Underworlds (Blue Note)
  6. Kenny Barron-Dave Holland Trio Featuring Johnathan Blake, Without Deception (Dare2)
  7. Jon Jang, The Pledge of Black Asian Allegiance (Asian Improv)
  8. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  9. Ben Williams, I Am a Man (Rainbow Blonde)
  10. Ahmed Abdullah Diaspora Meets Afro Horn, Jazz: A Music of the Spirit: Out of Sistas' Place (self-released -19)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  3. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)

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