15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Andrew Gilbert (San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Classical Voice, Bay Area News Group)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Harold Mabern, Mabern Plays Mabern (Smoke Sessions)
  2. Ben Goldberg, Symphony No. 9 (BAG Production)
  3. Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
  4. Jimmy Heath, Love Letter (Verve)
  5. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  6. Walter Smith III-Matthew Stevens-Micah Thomas-Linda May Han Oh-Nate Smith, In Common 2 (Whirlwind)
  7. Eddie Henderson, Shuffle and Deal (Smoke Sessions)
  8. Jason Palmer, The Concert: 12 Musings for Isabella (Giant Steps Arts)
  9. Lisa Mezzacappa Six, Cosmicomics (Queen Bee)
  10. Whit Dickey, Morph (ESP-Disk)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
  3. George Coleman Quintet, In Baltimore (1971, Reel to Real)

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