15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Greg Bryant (host of WBGO's Jazz After Hours and co-host of WBGO's Jazz United Podcast)

NEW RELEASES

  1. JD Allen, Toys/Die Dreaming (Savant)
  2. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Axiom (Ropeadope)
  3. Giveton Gelin, True Design (self-released)
  4. Christian Sands, Be Water (Mack Avenue)
  5. Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger, Force Majeure (International Anthem)
  6. Charles Tolliver, Connect (Gearbox)
  7. Robin McKelle, Alterations (Doxie)
  8. Lionel Loueke, HH (Edition)
  9. Regina Carter Freedom Band, Swing States: Harmony in the Battleground (Tiger Turn)
  10. Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)
  3. Ella Fitzgerald, Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (1962, Verve)

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