15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Gene Seymour (CNN, Bookforum, The Nation)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jimmy Heath, Love Letter (Verve)
  2. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
  3. Aaron Diehl, The Vagabond (Mack Avenue)
  4. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  5. Liberty Ellman, Last Desert (Pi)
  6. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis, The Music of Wayne Shorter (Blue Engine)
  7. Joshua Redman-Brad Mehldau-Christian McBride-Brian Blade, Round Again (Nonesuch)
  8. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  9. Artemis, Artemis (Blue Note)
  10. Fred Hersch, Songs From Home (Palmetto)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Edward Simon, 25 Years (1995-2018, Ridgeway)
  2. Ella Fitzgerald, Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (1962, Verve)
  3. Frank Sinatra, Nice 'N Easy [60th Anniversary Edition] (Capitol)

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