Best jazz of 2020

  1. Sun Ra Arkestra

  2. Irreversible Entanglements

  3. Shabaka and the Ancestors

  4. Alan Braufman

  5. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

  6. Jeff Parker

  7. Nubya Garcia

  8. Onyx Collective

  9. WILDFLOWER

  10. Mike Casey

  11. Camilla George

  12. nat birchall

  13. Tom Misch, Yussef Dayes

  14. Moses Boyd

  15. Chicago Underground Quartet

  16. Andy Hay

  17. Kamaal Williams

  18. Bless The Mad

  19. Chad Taylor, James Brandon Lewis

  20. Web Web

  21. Chip Wickham

  22. Yussef Dayes, Charlie Stacey, Rocco Palladino

  23. Rob Mazurek – Exploding Star Orchestra

  24. Tarquim

  25. Damu the Fudgemunk, Archie Shepp & Raw Poetic

  26. Calabashed, Joshua Idehen, Alabaster DePlume

  27. Analog Players Society

  28. Etuk Ubong

  29. Oddjob

  30. Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela

  31. Ugh
    Ebi Soda

  32. Txema Riera Trio +1 (feat. Santi de la Rubia)

  33. Jeremy Cunningham

  34. Fernando Brox Quartet

  35. The Mabon Dawud Republic

  36. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

  37. Telewawachi Kilili

  38. Karu

  39. Asher Gamedze

  40. Maria Schneider

  41. Błoto

  42. AKU!

  43. Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes

  44. Alba Careta Group

  45. Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, Maâlem Moukhtar Gania

  46. Joshua Redman Brad Mehldau Christian McBride Brian Blade

  47. Jyoti, Georgia Anne Muldrow

  48. ARTEMIS

  49. Anteloper

  50. Barry Long

  51. Ron Miles

  52. Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow

  53. Rudresh Mahanthappa

  54. Immanuel Wilkins

  55. Agbeko

  56. Asylon Terra, Pierre Lordet

  57. Alhousseini Anivolla, Girum Mezmur

  58. Alo
    Ajate

  59. Various Artists

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