15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Phillip Lutz (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. David Liebman-Randy Brecker-Marc Copland-Drew Gress-Joey Baron, Quint5t (InnerVoice Jazz)
  2. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  3. Andy Emler, No Solo (La Buissonne)
  4. John Scofield, Swallow Tales (ECM)
  5. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
  6. Rez Abbasi, Django-shift (Whirlwind)
  7. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Life Goes On (ECM)
  8. Michael Wollny, Mondenkind (ACT Music)
  9. Fred Hersch, Songs From Home (Palmetto)
  10. Eddie Henderson, Shuffle and Deal (Smoke Sessions)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Bill Evans, Live at Ronnie Scott's (1968, Resonance)
  3. Ella Fitzgerald, Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (1962, Verve)

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