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 12 of 12 .