15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Larry Birnbaum (Stereophile)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kahil El'Zabar, Kahil El'Zabar's America the Beautiful (Spiritmuse)
  2. Mary Halvorson's Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
  3. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
  4. Jimmy Heath, Love Letter (Verve)
  5. Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela, Rejoice (2010, World Circuit)
  6. Chris Potter, There Is a Tide (Edition)
  7. Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey, Invisible Ritual (New Focus)
  8. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  9. Liberty Ellman, Last Desert (Pi)
  10. Angelica Sanchez & Marilyn Crispell, How to Turn the Moon (Pyroclastic)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

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

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