15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Brian Morton (DownBeat, The Wire, Jazz Journal, The Penguin Guide to Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jimmy Heath, Love Letter (Verve)
  2. Matt Wilson Quartet, Hug! (Palmetto)
  3. Charles Tolliver, Connect (Gearbox)
  4. Enrico Rava-Matthew Herbert-Giovanni Guidi, For Mario (Live) (Accidental)
  5. Gerald Clayton, Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
  6. Bobby Watson, Keepin' It Real (Smoke Sessions)
  7. Matthew Shipp, The Piano Equation (Tao Forms)
  8. Ray Russell, Fluid Architecture (Cuneiform)
  9. Trevor Watts, The Lockdown Solos (Hi4Head)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Lennie Tristano, The Duo Sessions (1967-76, Dot Time)
  2. The Ray Russell Quartet, Spontaneous Event: Live Vol 1: 1967-69 (Jazz in Britain)
  3. Mike Westbrook, Love and Understanding: Citadel/Room 315 Sweden '74 (My Only Desire)

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