15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

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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