15th Annual Jazz Critics Poll: 2020

Ballot 2020

Rob Shepherd (PostGenre Media)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey, Invisible Ritual (New Focus)
  2. Kahil El'Zabar, Kahil El'Zabar's Spirit Groove (Spiritmuse)
  3. Lakecia Benjamin, Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope)
  4. Josh Johnson, Freedom Exercise (Northern Spy)
  5. Carla Bley-Andy Sheppard-Steve Swallow, Life Goes On (ECM)
  6. Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note)
  7. Angelica Sanchez & Marilyn Crispell, How to Turn the Moon (Pyroclastic)
  8. Susan Alcorn Quintet, Pedernal (Relative Pitch)
  9. George Burton, Reciprocity (self-released)
  10. Lionel Loueke, HH (Edition)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL

  1. Dudu Pukwana, Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears" (1968-69, Matsuli Music)
  2. The Heshoo Beshoo Group, Armitage Road (1970, We Are Busy Bodies)
  3. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note)

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