15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020
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Adam Shatz (London Review of Books)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Tyshawn Sorey, Unfiltered (self-released)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Molecular (Intakt)
  3. Micah Thomas, Tide (self-released)
  4. Asher Gamedze, Dialectic Soul (On the Corner)
  5. Angelica Sanchez & Marilyn Crispell, How to Turn the Moon (Pyroclastic)
  6. Jorge Roeder, El Suelo Mio (T-Town)
  7. Tim Berne's Snakeoil, The Deceptive 4 (Intakt)
  8. Cory Smythe, Accelerate Every Voice (Pyroclastic)
  9. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  10. Evan Parker & Paul Lytton, Collective Calls (Revisited) (Jubilee) (Intakt)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  3. Horace Tapscott With the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions, 1976 (Dark Tree)

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Rob Shepherd (PostGenre Media)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey, Invisible Ritual (New Focus)
  2. Kahil El'Zabar, Kahil El'Zabar's Spirit Groove (Spiritmuse)
  3. Lakecia Benjamin, Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope)
  4. Josh Johnson, Freedom Exercise (Northern Spy)
  5. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Life Goes On (ECM)
  6. Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note)
  7. Angelica Sanchez & Marilyn Crispell, How to Turn the Moon (Pyroclastic)
  8. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  9. George Burton, Reciprocity (self-released)
  10. Lionel Loueke, HH (Edition)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Dudu Pukwana, Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears" (1968-69, Matsuli Music)
  2. The Heshoo Beshoo Group, Armitage Road (1970, We Are Busy Bodies)
  3. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note)

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Bill Shoemaker (Point of Departure)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Trevor Watts, The Lockdown Solos (Hi4Head)
  2. Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Artificial Happiness Button (Ropeadope)
  3. Decoy With Joe McPhee, AC/DC (Otoroku)
  4. Roots Magic, Take Root Among the Stars (Clean Feed)
  5. Peter Brötzmann-Maâlem Moukhtar Gania-Hamid Drake, The Catch of a Ghost (I Dischi di Angelica)
  6. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)
  7. Alexander von Schlippenbach, Slow Pieces for Aki (Intakt)
  8. Jeff Cosgrove-John Medeski-Jeff Lederer, History Gets Ahead of the Story (Grizzley Music)
  9. Gianni Mimmo & Alison Blunt, Busy Butterflies (Amirani)
  10. Jorma Tapio & Kaski, Aliseen (577 Records)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Sam Rivers, Ricochet [Sam Rivers Archive Project, Volume 3] (1978, NoBusiness)
  3. Phil Wachsmann, Writing in Water (1985, Corbett vs. Dempsey)

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Hank Shteamer (Rolling Stone)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Alan Braufman, The Fire Still Burns (Valley of Search)
  2. Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger, Force Majeure (International Anthem)
  3. Immanuel Wilkins, Omega (Blue Note)
  4. Josh Johnson, Freedom Exercise (Northern Spy)
  5. Pat Metheny, From This Place (Nonesuch)
  6. Chicago Underground Quartet, Good Days (Astral Spirits)
  7. Eric Revis, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
  8. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela, Rejoice (2010, World Circuit)
  9. Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes, Heritage of the Invisible II (International Anthem)
  10. Peter Evans-Joel Ross-Nick Jozwiak-Savannah Harris, Being & Becoming (More Is More)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Rashied Ali & Frank Lowe, Duo Exchange: Complete Sessions (1972, Survival)
  3. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)

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Jackson Sinnenberg (CapitalBop, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sun Ra Arkestra, Swirling (Strut)
  2. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis, The Music of Wayne Shorter (Blue Engine)
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
  4. Archie Shepp-Raw Poetic-Damu the Fudgemunk, Ocean Bridges (Redefinition)
  5. Reginald Cyntje & Allyn Johnson, Healing (self-released)
  6. Kahil El'Zabar, Kahil El'Zabar's America the Beautiful (Spiritmuse)
  7. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  8. Steve Arnold & Sea Change, Sea Change (self-released)
  9. Luke Stewart, Exposure Quintet (Astral Spirits)
  10. Marshall Allen-Roscoe Mitchell-Milford Graves-Scott Robinson, Flow States (ScienSonic)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Nina Simone, Fodder on My Wings (1982, Verve)
  2. Bill Evans, Live at Ronnie Scott's (1968, Resonance)
  3. Sun Ra Arkestra, Egypt 1971 (Strut)

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Slim (DJ Host WRCU)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lafayette Gilchrist, Now (Lafayette Gilchrist Music)
  2. The JCA Orchestra, Live at the BPC (JCA)
  3. Vinny Golia-John Hanrahan-Henry Kaiser-Wayne Peet-Mike Watt, A Love Supreme Electric: A Salvo Inspired by John Coltrane: A Love Supreme & Meditations (Cuneiform)
  4. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)
  5. Jason Palmer, The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella (Giant Steps Arts)
  6. Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York, Entity (Libra)
  7. Robin McKelle, Alterations (Doxie)
  8. LP and the Vinyl, Heard and Seen (OA2)
  9. Charlie Ballantine, Vonnegut (Green Mind)
  10. Fiona Apple, Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Erroll Garner, Plays Gershwin & Kern (1964-68, Mack Avenue)
  3. Paul Desmond, The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings (Mosaic)

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Jon Solomon (Westword)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
  2. Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note)
  3. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Life Goes On (ECM)
  4. Tigran Hamasyan, The Call Within (Nonesuch)
  5. John Scofield, Swallow Tales (ECM)
  6. The Nels Cline Singers, Share the Wealth (Blue Note)
  7. Terje Rypdal, Conspiracy (ECM)
  8. Joshua Redman-Brad Mehldau-Christian McBride-Brian Blade, Round Again (Nonesuch)
  9. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  10. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  3. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note)

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Sammy Stein (Something Else Reviews, Jazz Views, Free Jazz Collective, Women in Jazz [8th House], All That's Jazz [Tomahawk Press], In Their Own Words [8th House])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sothiac & Paul Jolly, Superluna (33Jazz)
  2. Ivo Perelman-Gordon Grdina-Hamin Honari, The Purity of Desire (Not Two)
  3. The End, Allt År Intet (RareNoise)
  4. Will Glaser & James Allsopp, New River Ramble (self-released)
  5. Binker Golding & Elliot Galvin, Ex Nihilo (Byrd Out -19)
  6. Ensemble C, Small World (Claire Cope Music)
  7. Dinosaur, To the Earth (Edition)
  8. Erodoto Project, Mythos: Metamorphosis (Culture Bridge Indie)
  9. Tony Kofi, Another Kind of Soul (Last Music Company)
  10. Witch 'n' Monk, Witch 'n' Monk (Tzadik)

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W. Royal Stokes (WRoyalStokes.com, JJA News)

NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)

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Mark Stryker (Jazz From Detroit (University of Michigan Press))

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jeremy Pelt, The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 1 (HighNote)
  2. Gregg August, Dialogues on Race: Volume One (Iacuessa)
  3. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)
  4. Charles McPherson, Jazz Dance Suites (Chazz Mack Music)
  5. Asher Gamedze, Dialectic Soul (On the Corner)
  6. James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor, Live in Willisau (Intakt)
  7. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  8. Joe Farnsworth, Time to Swing (Smoke Sessions)
  9. Pasquale Grasso, Solo Bud Powell (Okeh/Sony Masterworks)
  10. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Bobby Hutcherson, Oblique (1967, Blue Note Tone Poet)
  3. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)

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Dave Sumner (Bird Is the Worm, Bandcamp)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Eric Revis, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
  2. Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra, If You Listen Carefully the Music Is Yours (Odin)
  3. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
  4. Webber/Morris Big Band, Both Are True (Greenleaf Music)
  5. Majid Bekkas, Magic Spirit Quartet (ACT Music)
  6. Tell No Lies, Anasyrma (Aut)
  7. Stirrup + 6, The Avondale Edition (Cuneiform)
  8. Jasper Høiby, Planet B (Edition)
  9. Roots Magic, Take Root Among the Stars (Clean Feed)
  10. Soojin Suh Coloris Trio, Colorist (Night Birds)

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John Szwed (The Wire, Center for Jazz Studies [Columbia U])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Keith Jarrett, Budapest Concert (ECM)
  2. Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note)
  3. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  4. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  5. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  6. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Life Goes On (ECM)
  7. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
  8. Sun Ra Arkestra, Swirling (Strut)
  9. The Warriors of the Wonderful Sound, Soundpath (Composed by Muhal Richard Abrams) (Clean Feed)
  10. Jeff Parker, Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  3. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)

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Jeff Tamarkin (JazzTimes, Relix, Mojo, Best Classic Bands)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Joshua Redman-Brad Mehldau-Christian McBride-Brian Blade, Round Again (Nonesuch)
  2. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Axiom (Ropeadope)
  3. Immanuel Wilkins, Omega (Blue Note)
  4. Shabaka and the Ancestors, We Are Sent Here by History (Impulse)
  5. Nubya Garcia, Source (Concord)
  6. Artemis, Artemis (Blue Note)
  7. Matthew Shipp, The Piano Equation (Tao Forms)
  8. Pat Metheny, From This Place (Nonesuch)
  9. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
  10. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Charlie Parker, The Savoy 10-Inch LP Collection (1944-48, Craft)
  3. Ella Fitzgerald, Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (1962, Verve)

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Neil Tesser (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Chad Taylor Trio, The Daily Biological (Cuneiform)
  2. Eric Revis, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
  3. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  4. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  5. Dayna Stephens, Right Now! Live at the Village Vanguard (Contagious Music)
  6. John Beasley, MONK'estra Plays John Beasley (Mack Avenue)
  7. Kurt Elling, Secrets Are the Best Stories (Edition)
  8. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  9. Jim Snidero, Project-K (Savant)
  10. Ryan Cohan, Originations (Origin)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Edward Simon, 25 Years (1995-2018, Ridgeway)
  3. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)

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Ludwig vanTrikt (Cadence, NPR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Paul Jones, Let's Get Tropical (Outside In)
  2. Eric Revis, Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  4. Matt Wilson Quartet, Hug! (Palmetto)
  5. Noah Haidu, Doctone (Sunnyside)
  6. Theo Hill, Reality Check (Posi-Tone)
  7. Potsa Lotsa XL, Silk Songs for Space Dogs (Leo)
  8. Geof Bradfield-Ben Goldberg-Dana Hall Trio, General Semantics (Delmark)
  9. Alvin Schwaar-Bänz Oester-Noé Franklé, Travellin' Light (Leo)
  10. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Steve Potts, Musique Pour Le Film D'un Ami (1975, Souffle Continu)
  3. Horace Tapscott Quintet, The Giant Is Awakened (1969, Real Gone Music)

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George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune, JazzTimes)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note)
  2. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  3. Keith Jarrett, Budapest Concert (ECM)
  4. Liberty Ellman, Last Desert (Pi)
  5. Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
  6. Sun Ra Arkestra, Swirling (Strut)
  7. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  8. Dave Douglas, Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity (Greenleaf Music)
  9. Charles McPherson, Jazz Dance Suites (Chazz Mack Music)
  10. Steph Richards, Supersense (Northern Spy)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note)
  3. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)

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Seth Colter Walls (New York Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. George Lewis-Oxana Omelchuk-Studio Dan, Breaking News (Ezz-thetics)
  2. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis, Black Brown & Beige (Blue Engine)
  3. Cory Smythe, Accelerate Every Voice (Pyroclastic)
  4. Immanuel Wilkins, Omega (Blue Note)
  5. Cat Toren's Human Kind, Scintillating Beauty (New Focus)
  6. Roscoe Mitchell With Ostravská Banda, Performing Distant Radio Transmission Also Nonaah Trio, Cutouts for Woodwind Quintet and 8.8.88 (Wide Hive)
  7. Tyshawn Sorey, Unfiltered (self-released)
  8. Keith Jarrett, Budapest Concert (ECM)
  9. Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Free Hoops (Intakt)
  10. Archie Shepp-Raw Poetic-Damu the Fudgemunk, Ocean Bridges (Redefinition)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  3. George Lewis, Rainbow Family (1984, Carrier)

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Ken Waxman (Jazz Word)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Virtual Company, Virtual Company (Confront)
  2. Edward "Kidd" Jordan-Joel Futterman-William Parker-Hamid Drake, A Tribute to Alvin Fielder: Live at Vision Festival XXIV (Mahakala Music)
  3. Urs Blöchlinger Revisited, Harry Doesn't Mind (Leo)
  4. Jason Kao Hwang, Human Rites Trio (True Sound)
  5. Liquid Quintet, Bouquet (Sirulita -19)
  6. ROPE [Frank Paul Schubert-Uwe Oberg-Paul Rogers-Mark Sanders], Open Ends (Trouble in the East)
  7. Joe Fiedler's Big Sackbut, Live in Graz (Multiphonics Music)
  8. Sabu Toyozumi-Simon Tan-Rick Countryman-Yong Yandsen, Voices of the Spirit (ChapChap)
  9. Paul Flaherty-Randall Colbourne-James Chumley Hunt-Mike Roberson, Borrowed From Children (577)
  10. Bertrand Denzler & Antonin Gerbal, Sbatax (Umlaut)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Peter Kowald Quintet, Peter Kowald Quintet (1972, Corbett vs Dempsey)
  2. Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time OutTakes (1959, Brubeck Editions)
  3. Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe/Four Men Only, Complete Recordings (1968-73, NoBusiness)

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Bob Weinberg (Jazziz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Liberty Ellman, Last Desert (Pi)
  2. Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
  3. Anne Mette Iversen Quartet + 1, Racing a Butterfly (BJU)
  4. Edward "Kidd" Jordan-Joel Futterman-William Parker-Hamid Drake, A Tribute to Alvin Fielder: Live at Vision Festival XXIV (Mahakala Music)
  5. Abbey Rader & John McMinn, Duo From the Heart (Abray)
  6. Marcin Wasilewski Trio & Joe Lovano, Arctic Riff (ECM)
  7. Jimmy Heath, Love Letter (Verve)
  8. Chad Taylor Trio, The Daily Biological (Cuneiform)
  9. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Life Goes On (ECM)
  10. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  2. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  3. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)

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Jason Weiss (Le Ventre et l'Oreille, The Wire)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Lucian Ban-John Surman-Mat Maneri, Transylvanian Folk Songs (Sunnyside)
  2. Vol Pour Sidney (Retour) (Nato)
  3. Mirtha Pozzi, Tzimx (Nowlands)
  4. Clover [Alban Darche-Jean-Louis Pommier-Sébastien Boisseau], Vert Émeraude (Yolk Music)
  5. Sten Källman & Sanba Zao, Mapou (Country & Eastern)
  6. Jean-Marc Foussat-Daunik Lazro-Evan Parker, Café Oto (Fou)
  7. Natsuki Tamura-Satoko Fujii-Ramon Lopez, Mantle (Not Two)
  8. Sara Serpa, Recognition (Biophilia)
  9. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Molecular (Intakt)
  10. Robbe Gloaguen Quartet, Gardez Votre Sang Froid (Mazeto Square)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  3. Nat King Cole, Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Best of Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) (Resonance)

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