15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Peter Quinn (Jazzwise, The Arts Desk)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  2. Pat Metheny, From This Place (Nonesuch)
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
  4. Sun Ra Arkestra, Swirling (Strut)
  5. Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note)
  6. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Axiom (Ropeadope)
  7. Artemis, Artemis (Blue Note)
  8. John Scofield, Swallow Tales (ECM)
  9. Aaron Diehl, The Vagabond (Mack Avenue)
  10. Allison Neale, Quietly There (Ubuntu Music)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Charles Mingus, Pithecanthropus Erectus (WaxTime in Color -19)
  2. Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane, Monk's Music (1957, American Jazz Classics)
  3. Duke Ellington-Charles Mingus-Max Roach, Money Jungle (1962, Blue Note Tone Poet)

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