I wanted to get something out there for the best of jazz albums for 2020, since we launched Nightsounds Jazz in October. Seek these out and I will expand this offering in 2021
Artemus – “Artemus” (Blue Note)
Nubya Garcia – “Source” (Concord Jazz)
Billy Childs – “Acceptance” (Mack Avenue)
Ron Miles – “Rainbow Sign” (Blue Note)
Jimmy Heath – “Love Letter” (Verve)
Rez Abbasi – “Django-Shift” (Whirlwind)
Kandace Springs – “The Women Who Raised Me’” (Blue Note)
Peter Bernstein – “What Comes Next” (Smoke Sessions)
Tigran Hamasyan – “The Call Within” (Nonesuch)
Sinne Eeg - Danish Radio Big Band – ‘We’ve Just Begun” (BFM Jazz)
Fred Hersch – “Songs From Home” (Palmetto)
Nils Landgren/Jan Lundgren – “Kristallen” (ACT)
Warren Wolf – “Reincarnation” (Mack Avenue)
Gregoire Maret – “Americana” (ACT)