15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Sean J. O'Connell (DownBeat, Los Angeles Times)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jyoti, Mama, You Can Bet! (SomeOthaShip)
  2. Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note)
  3. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
  4. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Jazz Is Dead 001 (Jazz Is Dead)
  5. Josh Johnson, Freedom Exercise (Northern Spy)
  6. Brad Mehldau, Suite: April 2020 (Nonesuch)
  7. Thundercat, It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)
  8. Gerald Clayton, Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
  9. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Axiom (Ropeadope)
  10. Sam Gendel, Satin Doll (Nonesuch)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
  2. Ella Fitzgerald, Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (1962, Verve)
  3. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note)

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