15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Dan Ouellette (DownBeat, Stereophile, QWEST.TV, Jazz & Beyond Intel)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Thana Alexa, ONA (self-released)
  2. Jyoti, Mama, You Can Bet! (SomeOthaShip)
  3. Webber/Morris Big Band, Both Are True (Greenleaf Music)
  4. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
  5. Liberty Ellman, Last Desert (Pi)
  6. Lakecia Benjamin, Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope)
  7. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  8. Dafnis Prieto Sextet, Transparency (Dafnison Music)
  9. Joel Harrison + 18, America at War (Sunnyside)
  10. Jason Miles & Kind of New, Black Magic (Ropeadope)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  3. Nina Simone, I Put a Spell on You (1965, Verve)

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