Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label
Christian McBride The Movement Revisited Mack Avenue
Lisa Hilton Chalkboard Destiny N/C
Erroll Garner That’s My Kick Mack Avenue
Erroll Garner Up In Erroll’s Room Mack Avenue
Roberto Magris Sun Stone J Mood
Jon Batiste Chronology of a Dream Verve
Tim Warfield Jazzland Criss Cross
Christopher Hollyday Dialogue N/C
Virginia Schenck Battle Cry Airborne Ecstasy
Albare Albare Plays Jobim Alfi
Mark Fox Iridescent Sounds Humble Genius
Valery Ponomarev Big Band Our Father Who Art Blakey the Summit Centennial Benny Benack the Third A Lot of Livin’ To Do BB3 Productions
Aaron Diehl The Vagabond Mack Avenue
1 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label Warren Wolf Reincarnation Mack Avenue
Andrea Brachfeld Brazilian Whispers Origin
Erik Jekabson One Note At A Time Wide Hive
Sam Hirsh Quite Frankly Umadas Music
John Bailey Can You Imagine? Freedom Road
Wayne Shorter and the Jazz The Music of Wayne Shorter Blue Engine at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Tim Ray Excursions and Adventures Whaling City Sound
Lynne Arriale Chimes of Freedom Challenge
Randy Napoleon and Bill Brothers Cold Plunge Heid Eric Alexander Eric Alexander with Strings High Note
Lafayette Harris Jr. You Can’t Lose with the Blues Savant
Win Pongsakorn Yes, It Is Cellar Music
John Sneider The Scrapper Cellar Music
Brent Jansen The Sound of a Dry Martini Origin
2 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label New Stories Speakin’ Out Origin
Derrick Shezbie The Ghost of Buddy Bolden Clubhouse
Jeremy Pelt The Art of Intimacy Volume One High Note
Jim Snidero Project K Savant
Jimmy Greene While Looking Up Mack Avenue
Connie Han Iron Starlet Mack Avenue
Erroll Garner Feeling is Believing Mack Avenue
Amber Weeks Pure Imagination N/C
Luciana Souza Storytellers Sunnyside
Harold Mabern Mabern Plays Mabern Smoke Sessions
Kenny Barron and Dave Without Deception Dare 2 Holland Lenora Zenzalai Helm For the Love of Big Band Zenzalai Music
Christian Tamburr The Awakening N/C
Carl Saunders Jazz Trumpet Summit
Charles Pillow Chamber Jazz Summit
3 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label Gerald Beckett Mood Pear Orchard
John DiMartino Passion Flower Sunnyside
Reid Hoyson Natural Gifts N/C
John Stein Watershed Whaling City Sound
Henry Robinett Then Nefertiti
Jim Robitaille Space Cycles Whaling City Sound
Duchess Live at Jazz Standard Anzic
Thomas Marriott Trumpet Ship Origin
Benjamin Boone Joy Origin
Cory Weeds Day By Day Cellar Music
Naama Gheber Dearly Beloved Cellar Music
Dave Askren and Jeff Paraphernalia Tapestry Benedict Wayne Escoffery The Humble Warrior Smoke Sessions
Schapiro 17 New Shoes Summit
Paul Shaw Moment of Clarity Summit
4 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label Robby Ameen Diluvio Origin
LP and the Vinyl Heard and Seen OA2
Ray Suhy and Lewis Porter Transcendent Sunnyside
Martial Solal and Dave Masters in Paris Sunnyside Liebman Brian Andres Mayan Suite Bacalao
Bobby Spellman Revenge of the Cool Sunnyside
Joel Harrison America At War Sunnyside
W. Allen Taylor Storyteller Wat
Benny Green Benny’s Crib Sunnyside
Denny Zeitlin Live at Mezzrow Sunnyside
TNEK Jazz Quintet Music of Sam Jones TNEK Jazz
Erroll Garner Gemini Mack Avenue
Erroll Garner Gershwin and Kern Mack Avenue
Erroll Garner Magician Mack Avenue
Paul Tuvman In My Life N/C
5 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label Bill Warfield and the Hell’s Smile Planet Arts Kitchen Funk Orchestra Ted Moore The Natural Order of Things Origin
Alain Mallet A Wake of Sorrows Engulfed in Origin Rage Christian Sands Be Water Mack Avenue
Brian Landrus For Now Blue Land
Glenn Zaleski The Question Sunnyside
Jesse Davis Live at Smalls Smalls Live
Joel Frahm Live at Smalls Smalls Live
Steve Davis Live at Smalls Smalls Live
Spike Wilner A Set of Originals Smalls Live
Orrin Evans and the Captain The Intangible Between Smoke Sessions Black Big Band Tom Ranier This Way N/C
Grant Stewart Rise and Shine Cellar Music
Steve Fidyk Battle Lines Blue Canteen
6 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label Dave Stryker with Bob Blue Soul Strikezone Mintzer and the WDR Big Band Event Horizon Jazz Quartet Event Horizon GRB
Derrick Gardner Still I rise Impact Music
John Fedchock Into the Shadows Summit
Artist Variety Ella 100 Concord Jazz
Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra Night Devoid of Stars Cellar Music
Swingadelic Bluesville Zoho
Adam Shulman West Meets East Cellar Music
Antonio Adolfo Bru Ma AAM
Larry Willis I Fall in Love Too Easily High Note
Dena DeRose Ode to the Road High Note
Gregory Dudzienski Beautiful Moments OA2
Ryan Cohan Originations Origin
Jeremy Levy Jazz Orchestra The Planets: Reimagined OA2
7 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label Black Art Jazz Collective Ascension High Note
Ray Mantilla Rebirth Savant
Jerry Cook Walk in the Park Cellar Music
Ben Rosenblum The Music of Greg Hill Cold Plunge
Susie Meissner I Wish I Knew Lydian Jazz
Art Blakey and the Jazz Just Coolin’ Blue Note Messengers Bobby Watson Keepin’ It Real Smoke Sessions
Frank Basile and Sam Dillon Two Part Solution Cellar Music
Brian Swartz To Be With You N/C
Horizons Jazz Orchestra The Brite Side N/C
Harold Lopez-Nussa Te Lo Dije Mack Avenue
Billy Childs Acceptance Mack Avenue
Anthony Stanco You Know the Feeling Detroit Music Factory
Christian McBride Big Band For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver Mack Avenue
John Beasley MONK’estra Plays John Beasley Mack Avenue
8 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label Eddie Henderson Shuffle and Deal Smoke Sessions
Radam Schwartz Organ Big Message from Groove and G W Arabesque Band Scott Whitfield The Big Bad Bones Summit
Paul Carr The Real Jazz Whisperer PCJ Music
Jason Foureman and Duo Summit Stephen Anderson Ricardo Bacelar Ao Vivo No Rio Bacelar
Kenny Kotwitz and the L.A. When Lights are Low P M Jazz Quintet Trio Linguae Signals Origin
Mongorama Cantan Saungu
Mark Hynes & Dennis Irwin Tribute Cellar Music
Adam Kolker Lost Sunnyside
Diego Urcola El Duelo Sunnyside
Joe Farnsworth Time to Swing Smoke Sessions
Neil Swainson 49th Parallel Reel to Real
9 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label Miki Yamanaka Human Dust Suite N/C
Markus Rutz Blueprints OA2
Joachim Mencel Brooklyn Eye Origin
Scenes Trapeze Origin
Mike Melito & Dino Losito You’re It Cellar Music
Javon Jackson Déjà Vu Solid Jackson
Jen Hodge The Girl in the Groove N/C
Walter White BB XL N/C
Josie Falbo You Must Believe in Spring Southport
Claire Daly Rah Rah Ride Symbol
Conrad Herwig The Latin Side of Horace Silver Savant
J.D. Allen Toys/Die Dreaming Savant
Yellow Jackets Plus WDR Big Jackets XL Mack Avenue Band Peter Bernstein What Comes Next Smoke Sessions
Thelonious Monk Palo Alto Impulse
10 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label Ben Rosenblum Kites and Strings N/C
Uptown Jazz Tentet What’s Next Irabbagast
System 6 Bennie’s Lament Skipper Prod.
Ella Fitzgerald The Lost Berlin Tapes Verve
Peter Leitch Orchestra New Life Jazz House
The Royal Bopsters Party of Four Motemo
Ian Hendrickson – Smith The Lowdown Cellar Live
Kristiana Roemer House of Mirrors Sunnyside
Pete Ellman Big Band For Pete’s Ache N/C
David Friesen Testimony Origin
Jihee Heo Are You Ready? OA2
George Kahn Dream Catcher Playing Records
Wolfgang Lackerschmid & Quintet Sessions 1979 Dot Time Chet Baker Eric Reed For Such a Time As This Smoke Sessions
Alan Broadbent Trio in Motion Savant
11 of 12 Ed Love's Highly Recommended New CDs for 2020
Artist Title Label Richard Baratta Music in Film Savant
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