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BEST OF 2020 BEST OF 2020 BEST OF 2020 BEST OF 2020 BEST OF 2020 BEST OF 2020 THE RECORD BEST OF 2020 BEST OF 2020 BEST OF 2020 BEST OF 2020 BEST OF 2020 BEST OF 2020 OF THE YEAR OF THE YEAR MISCELLANEOUS CATEGORIES OF THE YEAR () JUHANI AALTONEN, JONAS KULLHAMMAR, JUHANI AALTONEN, JONAS KULLHAMMAR, (saxophone) CHRISTIAN MEAAS SVENDSEN, CHRISTIAN MEAAS SVENDSEN, SOLO RECORDINGS BOXED SETS UNEARTHED GEMS ILMARI HEIKINHEIMO— ILMARI HEIKINHEIMO— (saxophone) CHRIS CORSANO—Mezzaluna (Catalytic Sound) PAUL DESMOND—The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings & — The Father, the Sons & The Junnu (Moserobie) The Father, the Sons & The Junnu (Moserobie) (Mosaic) Just Coolin’ (Blue Note) JAMES BRANDON LEWIS (saxophone) SIGURD HOLE—Lys / Mørke ( Light / Darkness ) (s/r) DANIEL BINGERT—Berit in Space (Moserobie) PETER EVANS—Into the Silence (More is More-Old Heaven) HERMIONE JOHNSON—Tremble (Relative Pitch) CHARLES LLOYD—8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) —The Lost Berlin Tapes (Verve) CHARLES LLOYD (saxophone) (Blue Note) LUCA T. MAI—Heavenly Guide (Trost) JAZZ ORCHESTRA— COLLOCUTOR—Continuation (On The Corner) FIRE! ORCHESTRA—Actions (Rune Grammofon) MODERN JAZZ QUINTET KARLSRUHE/ That Time (Not Two) —The Equation (Tao Forms) MEN ONLY—Complete Recordings (NoBusiness) CHARLES MINGUS—@ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside) ANDREA KELLER—Journey Home (s/r) DAVID KRAKAUER/KATHLEEN TAGG— UP-AND-COMERS OF THE YEAR CHARLIE PARKER—The Mercury & Clef 10-Inch LP ALAN WAKEMAN—The Octet Broadcasts (1969 and 1979) Breath & Hammer (Table Pounding) Collection (Verve) EMMET COHEN (piano) JON-ERIK KELLSO—Sweet Fruits Salty Roots (Jazzology) LATIN RELEASES (Gearbox) CHARLES LLOYD VARIOUS ARTISTS—Not Two... but Twenty (Not Two) KARL EVANGELISTA (guitar) —8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) ROBBY AMEEN—Diluvio (Origin) KIRK KNUFFKE—Tight Like This (SteepleChase) (Blue Note) SULLIVAN FORTNER (piano) RAY MANTILLA—Rebirth (Savant) TRIBUTES HEDVIG MOLLESTAD (guitar) CHARLES LLOYD—8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) MIKLÓS LUKÁCS CIMBIOSIS TRIO— JOSÉ RIZO’S MONGORAMA—Mariposas Cantan (Saungu) JAZZ BOOKS LAKECIA BENJAMIN— LUKE STEWART (bass) (Blue Note) Music From the Solitude of Timeless Minutes (BMC Records) GONZALO RUBALCABA/AYMÉE NUVIOLA— THE ART OF JAZZ Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope) Viento y Tiempo - Live at Blue Note Tokyo (Top Stop Music) Alyn Shipton (Penguin/Random House) RAOUL BJÖRKENHEIM—Solar Winds (Long Song) —Thirty years in between (Les Disques Victo) LUCA T. MAI—Heavenly Guide (Trost) PAPO VÁZQUEZ MIGHTY PIRATES BETTER DAYS WILL COME AGAIN: THE LIFE OF FIRE! ORCHESTRA—Actions (Rune Grammofon) TROUBADOURS—Chapter 10: Breaking Cover (Picaro) ARTHUR BRIGGS, JAZZ GENIUS OF HARLEM, LABELS OF THE YEAR RUFUS REID/SULLIVAN FORTNER— GARD NILSSEN SUPERSONIC ORCHESTRA— AND A NAZI PRISON CAMP KRISTJAN RANDALU/DAVE LIEBMAN— Always in The Moment (Newvelle) If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours (Odin) Travis Atria ( Review Press) Mussorgsky Pictures Revisited (BMC Records) BMC RECORDS (bmcrecords.hu) JOHN SCOFIELD—Swallow Tales (ECM) MATT WILSON QUARTET—Hug! (Palmetto) BARRE PHILLIPS—Thirty years in between (Les Disques Victo) VOCAL RELEASES JAZZ IMAGES BY FRANCIS WOLFF INTAKT (intaktrec.ch) LUCIA CADOTSCH—Speak Low II (We Jazz) (Elemental Music) NOT TWO (nottwo.com) —Laurence Donohue-Greene MATT WILSON QUARTET—Hug! (Palmetto) YOON SUN CHOI/JACOB SACKS— PLAY THE WAY YOU FEEL: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE DEBUTS STEEPLECHASE (steeplechase.dk) I Should Care (Yeah Yeah) TO JAZZ STORIES ON FILM —Andrey Henkin Kevin Whitehead (Oxford University Press) MWATA BOWDEN—1 Foot In 1 Foot Out (Asian Improv) SUNNYSIDE (sunnysiderecords.com) JAY CLAYTON/JERRY GRANELLI— Alone Together (Sunnyside) SITTIN’ IN: JAZZ CLUBS OF THE 1940S AND 1950S KARL EVANGELISTA—Apura! (Astral Spirits) COSMIC VIBRATIONS FT. DWIGHT TRIBLE— Jeff Gold (Harper Design) ANTTI LÖTJÖNEN—Quintet East (We Jazz) ORIGINAL ARTWORK Pathways & Passages (Spiritmuse) LUCA T. MAI—Heavenly Guide (Trost) , RAW POETIC, LARGE ENSEMBLE RELEASES JORGE ROEDER—El Suelo Mío (s/r) DAMU THE FUDGEMUNK—Ocean Bridges (Redefinition) AARDVARK JAZZ ORCHESTRA—Faces of Souls (Leo) FIRE! ORCHESTRA—Actions (Rune Grammofon) REISSUES JACOB GARCHIK—Clear Line (Yestereve) /FRANK LOWE—Duo Exchange (Survival) LIVE ALBUMS GARD NILSSEN SUPERSONIC ORCHESTRA— TRIO (FEATURING GERRY MATS GUSTAFSSON—Padova Solo (Catalytic Sound) If You Listen Carefully The Music Is Yours (Odin) MULLIGAN)—Compadres (Recorded Live in Mexico) JAMES BRANDON LEWIS/CHAD TAYLOR— MARIA SCHNEIDER ORCHESTRA— (Columbia-Speakers Corner) Live in Willisau (Intakt) Data Lords (ArtistShare) ERROLL GARNER—That’s My Kick CHARLES LLOYD—8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Mack Avenue-Octave Music) (Blue Note) MODERN JAZZ QUINTET KARLSRUHE/ BARRE PHILLIPS—Thirty years in between (Les Disques Victo) FOUR MEN ONLY—Complete Recordings (NoBusiness) MARTIAL SOLAL/DAVE LIEBMAN— MASAYUKI TAKAYANAGI NEW DIRECTION UNIT— IDRIS ACKAMOOR & CYANOTYPE— PETER EVANS— — JERRY GRANELLI— Masters in Paris (Sunnyside) Axis/Another Revolvable Thing (In Concert) THE PYRAMIDS—Shaman! Birdsongs of the Necromancer Into the Silence SOURCE Plays Vince Guaraldi & Mose Allison (Offbeat-Blank Forms Editions) (Strut) (Out & Gone Music) (More is More-Old Heaven) (Concord) (RareNoise)

HONORABLE MENTIONS—NEW RELEASES Ambrose Akinmusire—on the tender spot of every calloused moment (Blue Note) • Susan Alcorn—Pedernal (Relative Pitch) • //—Transylvanian Folk Songs (The Béla Bartók Field Recordings) (Sunnyside) • / Trio (featuring Johnathan Blake)—Without Deception (Dare2) /Matthias Bauer/Dag Magnus—The Gift (NoBusiness) • Tim Berne—Sacred Vowels Soloes (Screwgun) • Tim Berne/—Spiders (Out Of Your Head) • Samuel Blaser—18 monologues élastiques (Outhere Music) • James Brandon Lewis Quartet—Molecular (Intakt) • Alan Braufman—The Fire Still Burns (Valley of Search) , Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver—Welcome Adventure! Vol. 1 (577 Records) • Luigi Ceccarelli/Hamid /Gianni Trovalusci/—Open Border (Audiographic) • Singers—Share the Wealth (Blue Note) • Avishai Cohen—Big Vicious (ECM) Marco Colonna/Alexander Hawkins—Dolphy Underlined (Fundacja Słuchaj) • Conference Call—Prism (Not Two) • Chick Corea—Plays (Concord) • Cortex—Legal Tender (Clean Feed) • Sylvie Courvoisier—Free Hoops (Intakt) • Aaron Diehl—The Vagabond (Mack Avenue) • Chris Dingman—Embrace (Inner Arts) Pierre Dørge & New Jungle Orchestra (featuring Stephen Riley)—Bluu Afroo (SteepleChase) • —Marching Music (Greenleaf Music) • /—Force Majeure (International Anthem) • Duchess—Live at Jazz Standard (Anzic) • Fabian Dudek—Creating Meaning (Fixcel) Nick Dunston—Atlantic Abstraction (Live at Threes) (Out of Your Head) • Kat Edmonson—Dreamers Do (Spinnerette) • Espoo —Espoo Suite (Galileo) • Peter Evans—Standards (More Is More) • Peter Evans Being & Becoming—Eponymous (More Is More) • Joe Fiedler’s Big Sackbut—Live in Graz (Multiphonics Music) Fiil Free—Under Overfladen (s/r) • The Flake—Plays Clinkers (Amalgam) • Ingebrigt Håker Flaten—Til Anna (Sonic Transmissions)• Satoko Fujii Orchestra NY—Entity (Libra) • Satoko Fujii/Natsuki Tamura—Pentas (Not Two) • Leo Genovese/Mariano Otero/Sergio Verdinelli—Sin Tiempo (ears&eyes) Marshall Gilkes—Waiting to Continue (s/r) • —Plague Diary (BAG Prod.) • Grencsó Collective Special 5 (with Ken Vandermark)—Do Not Slam The Door! (BMC Records) • GRID—Decomposing Force (NNA Tapes) • Elisabeth Harnik/Paal Nilssen-Love—Tangram (Catalytic Sound) Alexander Hawkins/—Shards and Constellations (Intakt) • —Love Letters (Verve) • /Tim Berne—Blood From A Stone (Radiolegs Music) • Daniel Herskedal—Call For Winter (Edition) • Peter Hess—Present Company (Diskonife) • Jon Pål Inderberg Trio—Radio Inderberg (AMP Music) Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis—Sherman Irby’s Inferno (Blue Engine) • Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis—Black, Brown and Beige (Blue Engine) • Karuna Trio—Imaginary Archipelago (Meta) • Kirk Knuffke—Brightness: Live in Amsterdam (Royal Potato Family) Krakow Improvisers Orchestra—KJO at Cricoteka (Not Two) • Briggan Krauss—The Art of the Saxophone: Live at The Stone Brooklyn 2020 (s/r) • Joachim Kühn & Trummerschlunk—Playing Probabilities (ACT Music) • José Lencastre/Jorge Nuno/Felipe Zenicola/João Valinho—Anthropic Neglect (Clean Feed) —Mood Suite (SteepleChase) • — ( Sessions) • Jon Maksimowicz/Dmitrij Golovanov—Beyond (s/r) • Billy Martin—Guilty (Amulet) • Makaya McCraven—Universal Beings E & F Sides (International Anthem) • Mike McGinnis—Time is Thicker (Open Stream Music) Lisa Mezzacappa—Cosmicomics (Queen Bee) • Hedvig Mollestad—Ekhidna (Rune Grammofon) • Ra Kalam Bob Moses—The Skies of Copenhagen (s/r) • The Necks—Three (Northern-Spy) • Sam Newsome—Sonic Journey (s/r) • Sam Newsome—Free Wyoming (s/r) • /—Collective Calls (Revisited) (Jubilee) (Intakt) Evan Parker/Zlatko Kaučič—Arkosberg (Klopotec) • Valery Ponomarev—Our Father Who Art Blakey: The Centennial (Summit) • //Nels Cline—Music from the Early 21st Century (RareNoise) • Bruno Räberg/Jason Robinson/Bob Weiner—The Urgency of Now (Creative Nation Music) Enrico Rava/Matthew Herbert/Giovanni Guidi—For Mario (Live) (Accidental) • Eric Revis—Slipknots Through A Looking Glass (Pyroclastic) • Steph Richards—Supersense (Northern Spy) • Howard Riley—More Listening, More Hearing (SLAM) • Stephen Riley—Friday The 13th (SteepleChase) Mara Rosenbloom—Respiration (Fresh Sound-New Talent) • Ana Ruiz—And The World Exploded Into Love (s/r) • —Conspiracy (ECM) • Angelica Sanchez/—How To Turn The Moon (Pyroclastic) • Dave Sewelson—More Music for a Free World (Mahakala Music) Matthew Shipp—The Unidentifiable(ESP-Disk’) • Matthew Shipp/Nate Wooley—What If? (RogueArt) • Susana Santos Silva—The Same Is Always Different (s/r) • Josh Sinton’s What Happens in a Year—cérémonie musique (FiP) • Øyvind Skarbø/Fredrik Ljungkvist//Ole Morten Vågan—Inland Empire (Clean Feed) Sonar (with )—Tranceportation (Volume 2) (RareNoise) • Esperanza Spalding/Fred Hersch—Live at the Village Vanguard (s/r) • Alister Spence—Whirlpool (s/r) • Vinnie Sperrazza/Jacob Sacks/Masa Kamaguchi—Play (Fresh Sound-New Talent) • Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii/Ramón López—Mantle (Not Two) Etuk Ubong—Africa Today () • Diego Urcola Quartet (featuring Paquito D’Rivera)—El Duelo (Sunnyside) • Trevor Watts—The Lockdown Solos (Hi4Head) • Weisblat/Ralske/Lafkas/Capp—Treatise on the Fragility of Knowledge (Noncept) • Mike Westbrook—Paris (ASC) • Torbjörn Zetterberg —Are You Happy? (Moserobie)