15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Fred Kaplan (Slate, Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
  2. Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note)
  3. Jimmy Heath, Love Letter (Verve)
  4. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  5. Aaron Diehl, The Vagabond (Mack Avenue)
  6. Ran Blake & Christine Correa, When Soft Rains Fall (Red Piano)
  7. Ben Perowsky-John Medeski-Chris Speed, Upstream (El Destructo -19)
  8. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  9. Fred Hersch, Songs From Home (Palmetto)
  10. Raphaël Pannier Quartet, Faune (French Paradox)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  3. Ella Fitzgerald, Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (1962, Verve)

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