Your Favorite Jazz Albums of 2020

[ronfint]

What are your favorite jazz or jazz-related albums released in 2020 (not reissues)? I'll start with a list of 10 of my favorites purchased this last year on Bandcamp.

 

Mammal Hands / Captured Spirits

Matthew Halsall / Salute to the Sun

Amaeshi Ikechi / The Voice of Hope

Nubya Garcia / Source

Cat Toren's HUMAN KIND / Scintillating Beauty

Keleketla! / Keleketla!

Marc Cary and Sameer Gupta / The Caravan

Waaju / Grown

The Phi-Sonics / The Cradle

Koichi Sakai and Afla Sackey / Wono

[MarkusBarkus]

This side has been relentlessly delicious. Great sound. You can hear the sustain, pedal work, note decay. I like it...a lot.
Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio: Speak Low
 

 

[JoeWhip]

Monty Alexander Love You Madly Live at Bubbas. Superb performance with Monty at the top of his game and stellar sonics.

[sphinxsix]

On 12/30/2020 at 11:48 PM, ronfint said:

What are your favorite jazz or jazz-related albums released in 2020 (not reissues)? I'll start with a list of 10 of my favorites purchased this last year on Bandcamp.

 

Mammal Hands / Captured Spirits

Matthew Halsall / Salute to the Sun

Amaeshi Ikechi / The Voice of Hope

Nubya Garcia / Source

Cat Toren's HUMAN KIND / Scintillating Beauty

Keleketla! / Keleketla!

Marc Cary and Sameer Gupta / The Caravan

Waaju / Grown

The Phi-Sonics / The Cradle

Koichi Sakai and Afla Sackey / Wono

 

A really cool list! 

 

I won't name specific albums, I will just say that I really appreciate what was happening on the London jazz scene in recent years.