Top 100 Releases of 2020
1) Christian McBride Big Band For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver 2) Lindsey Webster A Woman Like Me 3) Dr. John & The WDR Big Band Big Band Voodoo 4) Gregory porter All Rise 5) George Benson Weekend in London 6) Artemis Artemis 7) Joe Bonamassa Live At The Sydney Opera House 8) Maceo Parker Soul Food - Cooking With Maceo 9) Joshua Redman / Brad Mehldau / Christian McBride / Brian Blade RoundAgain 10) Dave Stryker w/ Bob Mintzer and the WDR Big Band Blue Soul 11) Harold Mabern Mabern Plays Mabern 12) Duchess Live at Jazz Standard 13) Black Art Jazz Collective Ascension 14) Brian Culbertson XX 15) Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra I Shouldn't Be Telling You This 16) Alexa Tarantino Clarity 17) Eric Alexander Eric Alexander with Strings 18) Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Just Coolin' 19) Chick Corea Plays 20) Mike Cottone Thank You 21) The Claire Daly Big Band Rah! Rah! 22) Dena DeRose Ode To The Road 23) Laura Dubin Trio Pieces of Paris 24) Ella Fitzgerald The Lost Berlin Tapes 25) The Flying Horse Big Band Florida Rays 26) Champian Fulton Birdsong 27) Nubya Garcia Source 28) Lafayette Harris Jr. You Can't Lose with the Blues 29) Wayne Escoffery The Humble Warrior 30) Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Horace Silver 31) The Hot Sardines Welcome Home Bon Voyage 32) Chein Chein Lu The Path 33) Robin McKelle Alterations 34) Mike Mileto / Dino Losito Quartet You're It! 35) 3 More Sounds Live at the Gardinea Club 36) Valery Ponomarev Our Father Who Art Blakey: The Centennial 37) Haley Reinhart Lo-Fi Soul 38) Pancho Sanchez Trane's Delight 39) Ben Sidran Who's The Old Guy Now 40) Kandace Springs the Women Who Raised Me 41) Erena Terakubo Absolutely Live! 42) The Royal Bopsters Party of Four 43) Yellowjackets Jackets XL 44) Bobby Watson Keepin' It Real 45) Various Ella 100 - Live At The Apollo 46) Diego Urcola Quintet ft. Paquito D'rivera El Duelo 47) U-Nam U-Nam Goed Big Band 48) Swingadelic Bluesville 49) Spanish Harlem Orchestra The Latin Jazz Project 50) Judah Sealy Legacy 51) Maria Schneider Data Lords 52) Buddy Rich Just In Time 53) Ralph Peterson Onward and Upward 54) Nils Caught In the Groove 55) Thelonious Monk Palo Alto 56) Christian McBride The Movement Revisited 57) Ray Mantilla Rebirth 58) Michael Lington Silver Lining 59) Little Steven and the Interstellar Jazz Renegades Lilyhammer The Score: Volume one 60) Diana Krall This Dream of You 61) Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis The Music of Wayne Shorter 62) Randy Brecker-Eric Marienthal Double Dealin 63) Boney James Solid 64) Christopher Holiday Dialouge 65) Lisa Hilton Chalkboard Destiny 66) Skinny Hightower Blue Moon 67) Fred Hersch Songs From Home 68) Vincent Herring Bird at 100 69) Ian Hendrickson-Smith The Lowdown 70) Eddie Henderson Shuffle and Deal 71) Connie Han Iron Starlet 72) Benny Green Benny's Crib 73) Christian Sands Be Water 74) Andy Fusco Remembrance 75) Joe Farnsworth Time To Swing 76) Orrin Evans And The Captian Black Big Band The Intangible Between 77) Sinne Eeg We've Just Begun 78) Kat Edmonson Dreamers Do 79) Dave Douglas Dizzy Atmosphere : Dizzy Gillespie at Zero 80) The Dirty River Dixie Band Gravity 81) Al Di Meola High Life in San Antone 82) Vanessa Collier Heart On the Line 83) Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out Takes 84) Norman Brown Heart To Heart 85) Peter Bernstein What Comes Next 86) Jerry Bergonzi Nearly Blue 87) Rachael & Vilray Rachael & Vilray 88) Teodross Avery Harlem Stories: The Music of Thelonious Mon 89) Emily Asher's Garden Party If I Were A Window 90) Lynne Arriale Chimes of Freedom 91) 3D Jazz Trio I Love To See You Smile 92) Peter and Will Anderson Peter and Will Anderson: Featuring Jimmy 93) Mike Barone Big Band Brazil 94) Bill Tiberio BTB 2020 Live 95) Isaiah J. Thompson Plays The Music of Buddy Montgomery 96) Jeremy Pelt The Art of Intimacy, Vol 1 97) Special EFX All Stars 98) Ambrose Akinmusire On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Mome 99) Joey Alexander Warna 100) Kirk Whalum Humanite