Rhapsody Streamnotes: Year 2020 Index
- 75 Dollar Bill: Little Big Band Live at Tubby's (2020, self-released) B+(***)
- 75 Dollar Bill: Live at Cafe Oto Dec. 19, 2019 (2019 [2020], self-relased) A-
- 75 Dollar Bill: Power Failures (2018 [2020], self-released) B+(**)
- 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band: Roulette, March 27, 2017 (2017 [2020], self-released) B+(**)
- Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang: Snow Catches on Her Eyelashes (2020, Jazzland) B+(*)
- Bruce Ackley/Fred Frith/Henry Kaiser/Aram Shelton: Unexpected Twins (2016 [2019], Relative Pitch) B+(**)
- Amaarae: The Angels You Don't Know (2020, Golden Child Entertainment) A-
- Annie: Dark Hearts (2020, Annie Melody) B+(**)
- The Avalanches: We Will Always Love You (2020, Modular) B+(**)
- Bab L' Bluz: Nayda! (2020, Real World) B+(*)
- Backxwash: God Has Nothing to Do With This Leave Him Out of It (2020, Grimalkin, EP) B+(**)
- Barrage: The Was and Is to Come (2020, Øra Fonogram) B+(***)
- William Basinski: Lamentations (2020, Temporary Residence) B+(*)
- Matt Berninger: Serpentine Prison (2020, Book) B+(**)
- Nat Birchall: Mysticism of Sound (2020, Ancient Archive of Sound) B+(**)
- Nat Birchall Meets Al Breadwinner: Upright Living (2020, Tradition Disc) B+(***)
- Nat Birchall Sextet: Exaltation: Live in Athens Vol 1 (2018 [2020], Parafono) B+(*)
- Bktherula: Nirvana (2020, Warner) A-
- Ran Blake/Andrew Rathbun: Northern Noir (2018 [2020], SteepleChase) B+(**)
- Urs Blöchlinger Revisited: Harry Doesn't Mind (2018 [2020], Leo) B+(**)
- Blu & Exile: Miles (2020, Fat Beats) A-
- Boldy James/Sterling Toles: Manger on McNichols (2020, Sector 7-G) B+(***)
- Jorun Bombay & Phill Most Chill: Jorun-PMC (2020, AE Productions) B+(***)
- Christiane Bopp/Jean-Marc Foussat/Emmanuelle Parrenin: Nature Still (2018 [2020], Fou) B+(*)
- Anthony Braxton/Jacqueline Kerrod: Duo (Bologna) 2018 (2018 [2020], I Dischi Di Angelica) B+(***)
- Phoebe Bridgers: Copycat Killer (2020, Dead Oceans, EP) B+(*)
- Phoebe Bridgers: If We Make It Through December (2020, Dead Oceans, EP) B+(***)
- Brad Brooks: God Save the City (2020, Brad Brooks) B+(*)
- Peter Brötzmann/Maâlem Moukhtar Gania/Hamid Drake: The Catch of a Ghost (2019 [2020], I Dischi Di Angelica) A-
- Peter Brötzmann/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Memories of a Tunicate (2020, Relative Pitch) B+(*)
- Paul Bryan: Cri$el Gems (2020, self-released) B+(*)
- BTS: BE (2020, Big Hit) B+(*)
- The Bug: In Blue (2020, Hyperdub) B+(*)
- Carne Doce: Interior (2020, Tratore) B+(*)
- Chouk Bwa and the Ångströmers: Vodou Alé (2017-18 [2020], Bongo Joe) B+(**)
- Chubby and the Gang: Speed Kills (2020, Static Shock) B+(*)
- Code Orange: Underneath (2020, Roadrunner) B
- Conway the Machine: From a King to a GOD (2020, Griselda) B+(***)
- Conway the Machine/The Alchemist: Lulu (2020, Griselda/ALC, EP) B+(**)
- Deftones: Ohms (2020, Reprise) C+
- Bertrand Denzler/Antonin Gerbal: Sbatax (2019 [2020], Umlaut) B+(***)
- Disclosure: Energy (2020, Island) B+(**)
- DJ Python: Mas Amable (2020, Incienso) B+(**)
- Dorian Electra: My Agenda (2020, self-released) B
- Dave Douglas: Marching Music (2019 [2020], Greenleaf Music) B+(***)
- Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger: Force Majeure (2020, International Anthem) B+(***)
- Duma: Duma (2020, Nyege Nyege Tapes) B
- Dutchavelli: Dutch From the 5th (2020, Parlophone) B+(**)
- Kurt Elling: Secrets Are the Best Stories (2020, Edition) B-
- Elzhi: Seven Times Down Eight Times Up (2020, Fat Beats) B+(**)
- Enemy Radio: Loud Is Not Enough (2020, SplitSLAM) A-
- Roger Eno and Brian Eno: Mixing Colours (2020, Deutsche Grammophon) B+(*)
- Felt: Felt 4 U (2020, Rhymesayers Entertainment) A-
- Fleet Foxes: Shore (2020, Anti-) B
- Four Tet: Sixteen Oceans (2020, Text) B+(*)
- Jean-Marc Foussat/Thomas Lehn: Spie(l)gehungen (2017 [2020], Fou) B+(***)
- David Friesen With Orchestra and Quartet: Testimony (2018-19 [2020], Origin) B
- Satoko Fujii/Natsuki Tamura: Pentas: Tribute to Eric and Chris Stern (2019 [2020], Not Two) B+(**)
- Future/Lil Uzi Vert: Pluto x Baby Pluto (2020, Atlantic) B+(*)
- GoGo Penguin: Live From Studio 2 (2020, Decca) B+(*)
- Gorillaz: Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (2020, Parlophone) B+(*)
- Devin Gray: Socialytics (2019 [2020], Rataplan, EP) B+(**)
- Devin Gray/Gerald Cleaver: 27 Licks (2019 [2020], Rataplan) B+(*)
- Muriel Grossmann: Quiet Earth (2020, RR Gems) A-
- Mickey Guyton: Bridges (2020, Capitol Nashville, EP) B+(**)
- Matthew Halsall: Salute to the Sun (2020, Gondwana) B+(***)
- Connie Han: Iron Starlet (2020, Mack Avenue) B+(**)
- Elisabeth Harnik & Steve Swell: Tonotopic Organizations (2019 [2020], Fundacja Sluchaj) B+(*)
- Honey Harper: Starmaker (2019 [2020], ATO) B
- Headie One: Edna (2020, Relentless) B+(**)
- Headie One x Fred Again: Gang (2020, Relentless, EP) B+(*)
- The Heliocentrics: Telemetric Sounds (2020, Madlib Invazion) B+(**)
- Hemingway, Phillips & Moore: Slips (2019, Ramboy) B+(**)
- Ian Hendrickson-Smith: The Lowdown (2019 [2020], Cellar Live) B+(**)
- HHY & the Macumbas: Camouflage Vector: Edits From Live Actions 2017-19 (2017-19 [2020], Nyege Nyege) B+(**)
- François Houle 4: RECODER (2019 [2020], Songlines) B+(***)
- Jon Irabagon: I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues: Volume 3: Anatomical Snuffbox (2019 [2020], Irabbagast) B-
- Nicholas Jaar: Cenizas (2020, Other People) B+(*)
- Nicholas Jaar: Telas (2020, Other People) B+(**)
- Keefe Jackson/Jim Baker/Julian Kirshner: So Glossy and So Thin (2018-19 [2020], Astral Spirits) B+(***)
- Aubrey Johnson: Unraveled (2017 [2020], Outside In Music) B-
- Jimmy Johnson: Every Day of Your Life (2019, Delmark) B+(**)
- JPEGMafia: EP! (2020, Universal Republic, EP) B+(**)
- Jubileum Quartet [Joëlle Léandre/Evan Parker/Agustí Fernández/Zlatko Kaucic]: A Uis? (2018 [2020], Not Two) B+(**)
- Junglepussy: JP4 (2020, Jagjaguwar) B+(*)
- K. Michelle: All Monsters Are Human (2020, EOne Music) B+(**)
- Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams: Plastic Bouquet (2020, New West) B+(**)
- Kid Cudi: Man on the Moon III: The Chosen (2020, Republic) B+(**)
- Will Kimbrough: Spring Break (2020, Daphne) A-
- Kirk Knuffke: Tight Like This (2019 [2020], SteepleChase) B+(**)
- Simone Kopmajer: Christmas (2020, Lucky Mojo) B
- The Koreatown Oddity: Little Dominiques Nosebleed (2020, Stones Throw) B+(***)
- KRS-One: Between Da Protests (2020, R.A.M.P. Ent Agency) B+(**)
- Mário Laginha/Julian Argüelles/Helge Andreas Norbakken: Atlântico (2019 [2020], Edition) A-
- Mary Lattimore: Silver Ladders (2020, Ghostly International) B+(*)
- José Lencastre/Hernâni Faustino/Vasco Furtado: Vento (2018 [2020], Phonogram Unit) B+(***)
- Lil Baby: My Turn (2020, Quality Control) B+(**)
- Lil Uzi Vert: Eternal Atake (2020, Atlantic) B+(*)
- Brian Lisik: Güdbye Stoopid Whirled (2020, Cherokee Queen) B+(**)
- Liv.e: Couldn't Wait to Tell You . . . (2020, In Real Life) B+(*)
- David Lord: Forest Standards Vol. 1 (2016 [2018], BIG EGO) B+(**)
- David Lord: Forest Standards Vol. 2 (2018 [2020], BIG EGO) B+(**)
- Tkay Maidza: Last Year Was Weird (Vol. 2) (2020, 4AD, EP) B+(**)
- Marlowe: Marlowe 2 (2020, Mello Music Group) B+(***)
- Terrace Martin/Robert Glasper/9th Wonder/Kamasi Washington: Dinner Party (2020, Sounds of Crenshaw, EP) B+(*)
- Terrace Martin/Robert Glasper/9th Wonder/Kamasi Washington: Dinner Party: Dessert (2020, Sounds of Crenshaw, EP) B+(*)
- Terrace Martin: Village Days (2020, Sounds of Crenshaw/Empire, EP) B+(**)
- Masma Dream World: Play at Night (2020, Northern Spy) B
- Anna McClellan: I Saw First Light (2020, Father/Daughter) B+(*)
- Gayelynn McKinney and McKinney Zone: Zoot Suit Funk (2020, Beatstix) B+(*)
- The Microphones: Microphones in 2020 (2020, PW Elverum & Sun) B+(**)
- Flo Milli: Ho, Why Is You Here? (2020, RCA) B+(*)
- Ela Minus: Acts of Rebellion (2020, Domino) B+(***)
- Victoria Monét: Jaguar (2020, Tribe, EP) B+(**)
- Moodymann: Taken Away (2020, Mahogani Music) B+(***)
- Michael Moore Fragile Quartet: Cretan Dialogues (2019, Ramboy) B+(***)
- Rico Nasty: Nightmare Vacation (2020, Sugar Trap/Atlantic) A-
- The NDR Bigband With Michael Moore: Sanctuary (2019, Ramboy) B+(***)
- Keir Neuringer/Shayna Dulberger/Julius Masri: Dromedaries II (2020, Relative Pitch) B+(**)
- Keir Neuringer & Rafal Mazur: The Continuum (2018 [2020], Fundacja Sluchaj) B+(**)
- New Orleans High Society: New Orleans High Society (2020, 1718/Slammin Media) B+(***)
- Guillaume Nouaux: Guillaume Nouaux & the Stride Piano Kings (2019 [2020], self-released) B+(***)
- Waylon Payne: Blue Eyes, the Harlot, the Queer, the Pusher & Me (2020, Carnival) B+(***)
- Tivon Pennicott w/Strings: Spirit Garden (2020, New Phrase) B
- Zach Phillips: The Wine of Youth (2020, self-released) B+(*)
- Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs: Viscerals (2020, Rocket) B
- Polo G: The Goat (2020, Columbia) B+(**)
- Chris Potter: There Is a Tide (2020, Edition) B-
- PRAED Orchestra: Live in Sharjah (2018 [2020], Morphine) B+(**)
- Katie Pruitt: Expectations (2020, Rounder) B+(*)
- Qwanqwa: Volume 3 (2107 [2020], Wuzzawazee Industries) B+(**)
- Abbey Rader/John McMinn: Duo From the Heart (2019 [2020], Abray) B+(**)
- RaeLynn: Baytown (2020, Round Here, EP) B+(**)
- Eric Reed: For a Time Such as This (2020, Smoke Sessions) B+(*)
- Matana Roberts & Pat Thomas: The Truth (2018 [2020], Otoroku) B+(**)
- Hans-Joachim Roedelius: Selbstportrait: Wahre Liebe (2020, Bureau B) B+(**)
- ROPE [Frank Paul Schubert/Uwe Oberg/Paul Rogers/Mark Saunders]: Open Ends (2017 [2020], Trouble in the East) B+(**)
- Michael Rother: Dreaming (2020, Groenland) B+(**)
- Saint Jhn: While the World Was Burning (2020, Hitco) B+(**)
- Oumou Sangaré: Acoustic (2020, No Format) B+(**)
- The John Santos Sextet: Art of the Descarga (2011-15 [2020], Smithsonian Folkways) B+(***)
- Frank Paul Schubert/Dieter Manderscheid/Martin Blume: Spindrift (2019 [2020], Leo) B+(***)
- Frank Paul Schubert/Alexander von Schlippenbach/Martin Blume: Forge (2020, Relative Pitch) A-
- Alvin Schwaar/Bänz Oester/Noé Franklé: Travellin' Light (2019 [2020], Leo) B+(*)
- J. Peter Schwalm/Arve Henriksen: Neuzeit (2020, RareNoise) B+(**)
- Ray Scott: Nowhere Near Done (2020, Jethropolitan, EP) B+(**)
- Sevdaliza: Shabrang (2020, Twisted Elegaqnce) B+(**)
- Nadine Shah: Kitchen Sink (2020, Infectious Music) B+(**)
- Sturgill Simpson: Cuttin' Grass Vol. 2 (The Cowboy Arms Sessions) (2020, High Top Mountain) A-
- Skurkar: Skjulte Motiver (2019 [2020], Øra Fonogram) B+(***)
- Alan Sondheim & Azure Carter: Plaguesong (2020, ESP-Disk) B+(**)
- Sorry: 925 (2020, Domino) B+(**)
- Spillage Village: Spilligion (2020, Dreamville/SinceThe80s/Interscope) B+(*)
- Squarepusher: Be Up a Hello (2020, Warp) B+(*)
- Bartees Strange: Live Forever (2020, Memory Music) B+(*)
- Steve Swell Quintet Soul Travelers With Leena Conquest: Astonishments (2018 [2020], RogueArt) A
- Emma Swift: Blonde on the Tracks (2020, Tiny Ghost) B
- Taylor Swift: Evermore (2020, Republic) B+(***)
- Talibam! With Silke Eberhard and Nikolaus Neuser: This Week Is in Two Weeks (2020, ESP-Disk) B+(**)
- Jorma Tapio & Kaski: Aliseen (2019 [2020], 577) B+(***)
- Tell No Lies: Anasyrma (2019 [2020], Aut) B+(**)
- Thelonious Monster: Oh That Monster (2020, Outliner) B+(***)
- Duval Timothy: Help (2020, Carrying Colour) B+(*)
- Laura Toxvaerd: Tidens Strøm (2019, ILK Music, EP) B+(**)
- Laura Toxvaerd: Drapery (2019, ILK Music) B+(**)
- Lennie Tristano Centennial Quartet: Live @ Berklee (2020, Altered Music Productions) A-
- Kali Uchis: Sin Miedo (Del Amor Y Otros Demonios) (2020, Interscope) B+(*)
- Birgit Ulher/Franz Hautzinger: Kleine Trompetenmusik (2018 [2020], Relative Pitch) B-
- Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours: Chapter 10: Breaking Cover (2020, Picaro) B+(**)
- Luís Vicente/John Dikeman/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Goes Without Saying, but It's Got to Be Said (2020, JACC) A-
- Fay Victor's SoundNoiseFunk: We've Had Enough! (2019 [2020], ESP-Disk) B+(**)
- Virtual Company: Virtual Company (2018 [2020], Confront) A-
- Kelsey Waldon: They'll Never Keep Us Down (2020, Oh Boy, EP) B+(***)
- Why?: Ten Voices (2020, Synesthesia Media, EP) B
- Working Men's Club: Working Men's Club (2020, Heavenly) B+(**)
- Sharhabil Ahmed: The King of Sudanese Jazz ([2020], Habibi Funk) A-
- Ambiance: Into a New Journey (1982 [2020], BBE) B+(**)
- Available Jelly: Missolonghi: More From 2004 (2004 [2020], Ramboy) B+(**)
- Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time OutTakes (1959 [2020], Brubeck Editions) B+(***)
- Victor Chukwu: Akalaka/The Power (1977-79 [2020], BBE) A-
- Nat King Cole: Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Best of Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) (1938-43 [2020], Resonance) B+(***)
- The George Coleman Quintet: In Baltimore (1971 [2020], Reel to Real) A-
- Full Blast [Peter Brötzmann/Marino Pliakas/Michael Wertmüller]: Farewell Tonic (2007 [2020], Trost) B+(**)
- Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live in Maui (1970 [2020], Experience Hendrix/Legacy, 2CD) B+(***)
- Wolfgang Lackerschmid and Chet Baker: Ballads for Two (1979 [2018], Dot Time) B+(**)
- Wolfgang Lackerschmid/Chet Baker: Quintet Sessions 1979 (1979 [2020], Dot Time) B+(***)
- George Lewis: Rainbow Family (1984 [2020], Carrier) B+(**)
- Misha Mengelberg: Rituals of Transition (2002-10 [2020], I Dischi Di Angelica) B+(**)
- Michael Moore/Simon Nabatov: Ancient Sorrow (1998 [2020], Ramboy) B+(***)
- Prince Buster: Roll on Charles Street ([2020], Rock A Shacka) B+(**)
- Prince Buster: Let's Go to the Dance: Rock Steady Selection (1967-68 [2020], Rock A Shacka) B+(**)
- Kalie Shorr: Open Book: Unabridged (2019 [2020], Tmwrk) A-
- Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 (1983-87 [2020], Captured Tracks) B+(*)
- Neil Swainson Quintet: 49th Parallel (1987 [2020], Reel to Real) B+(***)
- Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: Axis/Another Revolvable Thing (1975 [2020], Blank Forms Editions, 2CD) B+(*)
- Cecil Taylor: At Angelica 2000 Bologna (2000 [2002], I Dischi Di Angelica, 2CD) B+(**)
- Gnod: Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine (2017, Rocket) B+(***)
- Gene Russell: New Direction (1971, Black Jazz; [2020], Real Gone Music) B+(***)
- Gene Russell: Talk to My Lady (1974, Black Jazz) B+(*)
- Thelonious Monster: California Clam Chowder (2004, Lakeshore) A-
- Peter Evans/Joel Ross/Nick Jozwiak/Savannah Harris: Being & Becoming (2019 [2020], More Is More) ++
- Peter Evans Ensemble: Horizons (2018 [2020], More Is More) +
- Peter Evans: Into the Silence (2019 [2020], More Is More) +
- Peter Evans: Standards (2020, More Is More) +
- Mark Helias/Tim Berne: Blood From a Stone (2020, Radiolegs) +
- The Human Hearts: Day of the Tiles (2020, self-released, EP) -
- Lisa Mezzacappa Six: Cosmicomics (2020, Queen Bee) ++
- Run the Jewels: RTJ4 (2020, Jewel Runners/RBC/BMG) A
- Serengeti: With Greg From Deerhoof (2020, Joyful Noise) B+(***)
- Sunny Sweeney: Recorded Live at the Machine Shop Recording Studio (2020, Aunt Daddy) A-
- Immanuel Wilkins: Omega (2020, Blue Note) A-
- Actress: Karma & Desire (2020, Ninja Tune) B+(*)
- Aesop Rock: Spirit World Field Guide (2020, Rhymesayers Entertainment) B+(***)
- Ainon: Drought (2020, We Jazz) B+(**)
- Susan Alcorn Quintet: Pedernal (2019 [2020], Relative Pitch) B+(**)
- Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus: Rats and Mice (2019 [2020], Lumo) B+(***)
- Lina Allemano: Glimmer Glammer (2019 [2020], Lumo) B+(*)
- Aluna: Renaissance (2020, Mad Decent) A-
- Jon Armstrong Sextet: Reabsorb (2020, Orenda) B+(**)
- Autechre: Sign (2020, Warp) B
- Autechre: Plus (2020, Warp) B
- AVA Trio: Digging the Sand (2018 [2019], Marocco Music) B+(***)
- The Awakening Orchestra: Volume II: To Call Her to a Higher Plain (2019 [2020], Biophilia) B+(***)
- Baby Queen: Medicine (2020, Polydor, EP) A-
- Bad Bunny: El Último Tour Del Mundo (2020, Rimas) B+(*)
- Ballrogg: Rolling Ball (2020, Clean Feed) B+(*)
- Alan Barnes: 60th Birthday Celebration: New Takes on Tunes From '59 (2019, Woodville) B+(**)
- Tim Barry: Live 2018 (2018 [2020], Chunkasah) A-
- Beabadoobee: Fake It Flowers (2020, Dirty Hit) B+(**)
- Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Deceptive 4 (2009-17 [2020], Intakt, 2CD) B+(**)
- David Binney/Kenny Wollesen: Basu (2020, Mythology) B+(*)
- Scott H. Biram: Fever Dreams (2020, Bloodshot) B+(**)
- Scott H. Biram: Sold Out to the Devil: A Collection of Gospel Cuts by the Rev. Scott H. Biram (2019, Bloodshot) A-
- Jeb Bishop: Centrifugal Trio (2019 [2020], Astral Spirits) B+(**)
- Noah Bless: New York Strong: Latin Jazz! (2020, Zoho) B+(*)
- Bonny Light Horseman: Bonny Light Horseman (2020, 37d03d) B
- Jamie Branch/Dave Rempis/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Tollef Østvang: Tripel/Dubbel (2018 [2020], Aerophonic) B+(***)
- Johanna Burnheart: Burnheart (2020, Ropeadope) B+(*)
- Will Butler: Generations (2020, Merge) B+(***)
- Cabaret Voltaire: Shadow of Fear (2020, Mute) B+(***)
- Call Super: Every Mouth Teeth Missing (2020, Incienso) B+(***)
- Carla Campopiano: Chicago/Buenos Aires Connections, Vol. II (2020, self-released) B
- Chloe x Halle: Ungodly Hour (2020, Columbia) B+(*)
- Chrome Hill: This Is Chrome Hill (2019 [2020], Clean Feed) B+(*)
- Mino Cinelu/Nils Petter Molvaer: SulaMadiana (2020, Modern) A-
- The Nels Cline Singers: Share the Wealth (2020, Blue Note) B+(*)
- Dan Clucas/Jeb Bishop/Damon Smith/Matt Crane: Universal or Directional (2018 [2020], Balance Point Acoustics) B+(***)
- Joachim Cooder: Over That Road I'm Bound: The Songs of Uncle Dave Macon (2020, Nonesuch) B
- Shemekia Copeland: Uncivil War (2020, Alligator) B+(*)
- Cortex: Legal Tender (2019 [2020], Clean Feed) A-
- Cosmic Vibrations: Pathways & Passages (2018 [2020], Spiritmuse) B+(**)
- Miley Cyrus: Plastic Hearts (2020, RCA) B+(**)
- Dagny: Strangers/Lovers (2020, Polydor, EP) B+(**)
- Angel Bat Dawid & Tha Brotherhood: Live (2019 [2020], International Anthem) B+(**)
- Dej Loaf: Sell Sole II (2020, BMG) B+(**)
- Demae: Life Works Out . . . Usually (2020, Touching Bass, EP) B
- Alabaster DePlume: To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1 (2020, International Anthem) B+(**)
- Hermine Deurloo: Riverbeast (2019, Zennes) B
- Tashi Dorji/Tyler Damon: To Catch a Bird in a Net of Wind (2018 [2020], Trost) B+(***)
- Tashi Dorji: Stateless (2020, Drag City) B+(*)
- Silke Eberhard/Dave Rempis/Kent Kessler/Mike Reed: Exposure (2017 [2020], Aerophonic) B+(***)
- The End: Allt Är Intet (2019 [2020], RareNoise) C
- Fat Tony: Exotica (2020, Carpark) B+(***)
- André Fernandes: Kinetic (2020, Clean Feed) B+(**)
- John Fogerty: Fogerty's Factory (2020, BMG) B+(*)
- Michael Foster/Dave Rempis/Jason Roebke/Tyler Damon: The Eagle (2019 [2020], Aerophonic, 2CD) B+(***)
- Fox Green: The Longest April (2020, self-released) B+(***)
- Funk Shui NYC: Shark NATO on a Plane (2020, Zoho) B+(*)
- Sam Gendel: Satin Doll (2020, Nonesuch) B
- Sam Gendel: DRM (2020, Nonesuch) B
- Julian Gerstin: Littoral Zone (2020, self-released) B+(***)
- Dave Gisler Trio With Jaimie Branch: Zurich Concert (2019 [2020], Intakt) B+(*)
- Ben Goldberg/Kenny Wollesen: Music for an Avant-Garde Massage Parlour (2020, BAG Production) B+(**)
- Vinny Golia/John Hanrahan/Henry Kaiser/Wayne Peet/Mike Watt: A Love Supreme Electric: A Salvo Inspired by John Coltrane: A Love Supreme & Meditations (2019 [2020], Cuneiform, 2CD) B+(***)
- Ariana Grande: Positions (2020, Republic) B+(*)
- Rich Halley/Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio/Newman Taylor Baker: The Shape of Things (2019 [2020], Pine Eagle) A-
- Theo Hill: Reality Check (2020, Posi-Tone) B+(*)
- Home Counties: Redevelopment (2020, Alcopop!, EP) B+(*)
- Ill Considered: Ill Considered 9: East/West (2019 [2020], Ill Considered Music) B+(***)
- Jaga Jazzist: Pyramid (2020, Brainfeeder) B+(**)
- Jahari Massamba Unit: Pardon My French (2020, Madlib Invazion) B+(*)
- Keith Jarrett: Budapest Concert (2016 [2020], ECM, 2CD) B+(**)
- Josh Johnson: Freedom Exercise (2020, Northern Spy) B+(*)
- Junk Magic: Compass Confusion (2020, Pyroclastic) B+(***)
- Benjamin Koppel/Kenny Werner/Scott Colley/Jack DeJohnette: The Art of the Quartet (2015 [2020], Cowbell Music/Unit, 2CD) B+(***)
- Benjamin Koppel/Tine Rehling/Henrik Dam Thomsen: Les Mobiles (2019 [2020], Cowbell Music) B+(*)
- Takuya Kuroda: Fly Moon Die Soon (2020, First Word) B+(***)
- Harald Lassen: Human Samling (2020, Jazzland) B
- Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (2019 [2020], Intakt, 2CD) B+(*)
- José Lencastre/Jorge Nuno/Felipe Zenícola/João Valinho: Anthropic Neglect (2019 [2020], Clean Feed) A-
- Adrianne Lenker: Songs (2020, 4AD) B+(*)
- Les Sangliers: Miniscules (2018 [2020], Aerophonic) B+(*)
- Lionel Loueke: HH (2019 [2020], Edition) B+(**)
- Majamisty Trio: Organic (2019 [2020], Sokoj) B+(**)
- Carla Marciano Quartet: Psychosis: Homage to Bernard Herrmann (2019 [2020], Challenge) B+(***)
- Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra: Dimensional Stardust (2020, International Anthem) A-
- Charles McPherson: Jazz Dance Suites (2020, Chazz Mack Music) B+(**)
- Megan Thee Stallion: Good News (2020, 300 Entertainment) A-
- Kylie Minogue: Disco (2020, BMG) B+(**)
- Nicole Mitchell/Moor Mother: Offering: Live at Le Guess Who (2018 [2020], Don Giovanni) B
- Ikue Mori/Satoko Fujii/Natsuki Tamura: Prickly Pear Cactus (2020, Libra) B+(**)
- Todd Mosby: Aerial Views (2020, MMG) B
- Rachel Musson: I Went This Way (2019 [2020], 577) B+(**)
- Rachel Musson: Shifa: Live in Oslo (2019 [2020], 577) B+(**)
- Tatsuya Nakatani/Shane Parish/Zach Rowden: Live at Static Age Records (2018 [2020], Astral Spirits) B+(*)
- Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser Holmes: Heritage of the Invisible II (2020, International Anthem) B+(**)
- The Michael O'Neill Quartet: And Then It Rained (2020, Jazzmo) B+(**)
- Oneohtrix Point Never: Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (2020, Warp) B+(*)
- Optic Sink: Optic Sink (2020, Goner) B+(***)
- Pa Salieu: Send Them to Coventry (2020, Warner Music UK) B+(**)
- Paris: Safe Space Invader (2020, Guerrilla Funk) B+(***)
- Bruno Parrinha/Abdul Moimeme/Carlos Santos: A Silent Play in the Shadow of Power (2020, Creative Sources) B-
- Theo Parrish: Wuddaji (2020, Sound Signature) B+(**)
- Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Amalgam (2020, Mahakala Music) B+(**)
- Vanessa Perica Orchestra: Love Is a Temporary Madness (2019 [2020], self-released) B+(**)
- Ben Perowsky/John Medeski/Chris Speed: Upstream (2014 [2019], El Destructo) B+(***)
- Malin Pettersen: Wildhorse (2020, Die With Your Boots On) B+(**)
- Mikkel Ploug: Balcony Lullabies (2020, Stunt) B+(*)
- Noah Preminger: Contemptment (2020, SteepleChase) B+(**)
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- Polish Jazz Quartet: Polish Jazz Quartet [Polish Jazz Vol. 3] (1964 [1965], Polskie Nagrania Muza) B+(**)
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- Don Rendell: Meet Don Rendell (1954-55 (2001), Jasmine) B+(***)
- Don Rendell/Bobby Jaspar: Rencontre A Paris (1955, Swing, EP) B+(**)
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- Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet: Phase III (1967 [1968], Columbia) B+(**)
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- Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet: Change Is (1969, Columbia) B+(***)
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- The Don Rendell Five Featuring Barbara Thompson: Just Music (1974 [1976], Spotlite) B+(**)
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- Annie Ross & Pony Poindexter: Recorded at the Tenth German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt (1966, SABA) B+(*)
- Wayne Shorter: Introducing Wayne Shorter (1959 [1960], Vee-Jay) A-
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- Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington: The Great Summit: The Master Takes (1961 [2000], Roulette) A
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- Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: Featuring Paul Gonsalves (1962 [1991], Fantasy/OJC) A-
- Duke Ellington: The Duke: The Essential Collection: 1927-1962 (1927-62 [2000], Columbia/Legacy, 3CD) A-
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- Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington's 70th Birthday Concert (1969 [1995], Blue Note, 2CD) B+(***)
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