Music Tracking 2020: Jazz
These are 2020 releases that I've taken note of, listed alphabetically
by artist, with VA comps at the bottom. My grades, where available, are
in brackets at the end of the line (stars in B+ range).
Most records have release dates and a brief genre note.
New Releases
Reissues, Etc.
- 16-17: Phantom Limb (1995, Trost) [01-03] - jazz
- John Abercrombie/Don Thompson: Yesterdays (1992, Cornerstone -19) [2019-09-23] - jazz
- Muhal Richard Abrams: Celestial Birds (Karl) [02-21] - jazz
- Rashied Ali/Frank Lowe: Duo Exchange: Complete Sessions (Survival) [01-10] - jazz
- Rashied Ali Quintet: First Time Out: Live at Slugs 1967 (Survival) [01-10] - jazz
- Ambiance: Into a New Journey (1982, BBE) [09-18] - jazz
- Brian Auger: Introspection (Sunset Blvd -3CD) - jazz
- Available Jelly: Missolonghi: More From 2004 (Ramboy) [12-05] - jazz
- The Awakening: Hear, Sense, and Feel (Real Gone Music) [06-25] - jazz
- Albert Ayler Quartet With Don Cherry: European Recordings Autumn 1964 Revisited (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
- Albert Ayler Trio: 1964: Prophecy Revisited (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
- Albert Ayler: New Grass (1968, Third Man) [06-26] - jazz
- Albert Ayler: 1965: Spirits Rejoice & Bells Revisited (Ezz-thetics) [11-06] - jazz
- Derek Bailey/Mototeru Takagi: Live at Far Our, Atsugi 1987 (NoBusiness) [11-15] - jazz
- Chet Baker: Chet Baker Sings (1954, Blue Note) [02-28] - jazz
- Ray Barretto: Barretto Power (1970, Fania) [10-23] - Latin jazz
- Harry Beckett: Joy Unlimited (1974, Cadillac) [08-14] - jazz
- Sangeeta Michael Berardi: Divine Song (1979, Sunjump) - jazz
- BBQ With Fred Frith: Free Postmodernism/USA 1982 (SAJ) [11-17] - jazz
- Borah Bergman/Wilber Morris/Sunny Murray: Monks (1996, Somerealmusic) - jazz
- Borah Bergman/Perry Robinson/Steve Swell/Ray Sage: Quartets Trios Duos (2007, Mahakala Music) [09-04] - jazz
- Tim Berne: 7 Adobe Probe (2009, Screwgun) [06-05] - jazz
- Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: 2001 Live Birds (Cuneiform) [01-31] - jazz
- Walter Bishop Jr: Coral Keys (Real Gone Music) [06-25] - jazz
- Black Unity Trio: Al-Fatihah (1969, Salaam) [11-27] - jazz
- Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Just Coolin' (1959, Blue Note) [07-17] - jazz
- Alan Braufman & Cooper-Moore: Live at WKCR May 22, 1972 (Valley of Search -EP -19) [2019-09-04] - jazz
- Willem Breuker/Han Bennink: New Acoustic Swing Duo (1967-68, Corbett vs Dempsey -2CD -19) [2019-12-06] - jazz
- Billy Brooks: Windows of the Mind (1974, WeWantSounds) [09-11] - jazz
- Tina Brooks: The Complete Recordings: Master Takes (Phono -2CD) - jazz
- Peter Brotzmann: 14 Love Poems [Plus 10 More] (1984, Cien Fuegos) [05-29] - jazz
- Marion Brown: Why Not? Porto Novo! Revisited (1966-67, Ezz-thetics) [06-00] - jazz
- Ray Brown & Laurindo Almeida: Moonlight Serenade (Kingston) - jazz
- Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time OutTakes (1959, Brubeck Editions) [12-04] - jazz
- Dave Brubeck Trio Featuring Gerry Mulligan: Compadres: Recorded Live in Mexico (1968, Columbia) - jazz
- Abraham Burton: Live at Visiones, NYC 1993 (self-released -EP) [05-24] - jazz
- Peter Campbell: Old Flames Never Die (Peter Campbell) [03-27] - jazz
- Joe Castro: Passion Flower: For Doris Duke (Sunnyside -6CD) [09-14] - jazz
- Vincent Chancey/Wilber Morris/Warren Smith: The Spell: The Vincent Chancey Trio Live 1987 (NoBusiness) [04-09] - jazz
- Don Cherry: Cherry Jam (Gearbox) [09-26] - jazz
- Don Cherry: Om Santi Om (1976, Black Sweat) [07-30] - jazz
- Jay Clayton/Fritz Pauer/Ed Neumeister: 3 for the Road (2001-02, Meistero Music) [09-18] - vocal jazz
- Nat King Cole: Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Best of Hittin' the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943) (Resonance) [05-08] - jazz
- George Coleman Quintet: In Baltimore (1971, Reel to Real) [12-11] - jazz
- The Paul Collins Beat: Another World: The Best of the Archives (Alive Naturalsound) - jazz
- John Coltrane Quartet: My Favorite Things Graz 1962 (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
- John Coltrane: Giant Steps [60th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition] (Rhino) [09-18] - jazz
- John Coltrane: Joe Brazil Bootleg (Detroit, 1958) (self-released) - jazz
- Company: 1983 (Honest Jon's) [02-07] - jazz
- Jerome Cooper/Kresten Osgood: As of Not (ILK Music) - jazz
- Lol Coxhill/Olaf Rupp: Poschiavo 2003 (Audiosemantics) [05-01] - jazz
- The Claire Daly Band: Rah! Rah! (2008, Ride Symbol) [10-02] - jazz
- Eddie Daniels: Night Kisses: A Tribute to Ivan Lins (Resonance) [05-29] - jazz
- The Miles Davis Quintet: The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (Craft -19) [2019-08-24] - jazz
- Nathan Davis Sextet: Peace Treaty (1965, SFP-Sam) [06-01] - jazz
- Paul Desmond: The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings (Mosaic -7CD) [05-00] - jazz
- Axel Dorner/Agusti Fernandez: Palynology (2001, Sirulita -19) [2019-05-01] - jazz
- DUX Orchestra: Duck Walks Dog (With Mixed Results) (1994, NoBusiness) [05-15] - jazz
- Duke Ellington: Money Jungle [Tone Poet Series] (Blue Note) [04-24] - jazz
- Duke Ellington: Uppsala 1971 (Storyville -19) [2019-09-06] - jazz
- Duke Ellington Orchestra: Liederhalle Stuttgart March 6, 1967 (Jazzhaus/SWR) - jazz
- Europe Jazz All Stars: Room 1220 (1970, Trio/Ultra Vybe) - jazz
- Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scott's (1968, Resonance -2CD) [11-27] - jazz
- Ibrahim Ferrer: Buenos Hermanos (2003, World Circuit) [02-28] - Latin jazz
- Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Piano Duets (Verve) [03-13] - vocal jazz
- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella: The Lost Berlin Tapes (1962, Verve) [10-02] - vocal jazz
- Full Blast [Peter Brotzmann/Marino Pliakas/Michael Wertmuller]: Farewell Tonic (2007, Trost) [07-03] - jazz
- Erroll Garner: Campus Concert (Mack Avenue) - jazz
- Erroll Garner: That's My Kick (Mack Avenue) - jazz
- Erroll Garner: Plays Gershwin & Kern (1964-68, Mack Avenue) [06-12] - jazz
- Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker: Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945 (Premium Cool) [08-29] - jazz
- Jimmy Giuffre: The 3 & 4: New York Concerts (Elemental) - jazz
- Frode Gjerstad/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Minneapolis Vol 1 (2000, Circulasione Totale) [11-27] - jazz
- Frode Gjerstad/William Parker/Hamid Drake: Minneapolis Vol 2 (2000, Circulasione Totale) [11-27] - jazz
- Dennis Gonzalez: Forever the Falling of Stars (1995, Daagnim) [09-25] - jazz
- The Good Life: The Animals Took Over (2009, self-released) [04-15] - jazz
- Dexter Gordon Quartet: Live in Chateauvallon 1978 (Elemental Music) - jazz
- Dexter Gordon: Montmartre 1964 (Storyville) [11-06] - jazz
- Dexter Gordon: The Squirrel: Live at Montmartre Copenhagen '67 (1967, Parlophone) [10-24] - jazz
- Milford Graves/Don Pullen: The Complete Yale Concert, 1966 (Corbett vs Dempsey) [08-14] - jazz
- Grant Green: Nigeria (1962, Blue Note) [01-02] - jazz
- Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: Ow! Live at the Penthouse (1962, Reel to Real -19) [12-06] - jazz
- Doug Hammond/David Durrah/Charles Burnham: Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen (1975, Tribe) [05-02] - jazz
- Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner [Tone Poet Series] (Blue Note) [03-27] - jazz
- Peter Hansen/Peeter Uuskyla: July 1, 1979 (Outerdisk) - jazz
- Hardcell: The Cosmos (2007, Screwgun) [12-04] - jazz
- Joe Harriott Quintet: Jazz for Moderns (Gearbox -EP) [05-22] - jazz
- Joe Harriott Quintet: Swings High (1967, Cadillac) [03-25] - jazz
- The Mark Harvey Group: A Rite for All Souls (1971, Americas Musicworks -2CD) [07-17] - jazz
- Tubby Hayes: The Complete Fontana Albums (1961-1969) (Decca -13CD -19) [2019-12-20] - jazz
- The Heshoo Beshoo Group: Armitage Road (1970, We Are Busy Bodies) [10-30] - jazz
- Terumasa Hino: Journey to Air (1970, Octave Lab) [03-11] - jazz
- Stan Hope: Stan Hope (1971, Mainstream) [08-04] - jazz
- Noah Howard: Live in Europe Vol 1 (1975, Sconsolato) [04-10] - jazz
- Freddie Hubbard: Open Sesame (Blue Note) - jazz
- Bobby Hutcherson: Oblique (1967, Blue Note Tone Poet) [09-10] - jazz
- Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd: InWhatStrumentals (2003, Pi) - jazz
- Michael Gregory Jackson: Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, self-released) [02-05] - jazz
- Bob James: Once Upon a Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions (1965, Resonance) [08-29] - jazz
- Bob James + Kirk Whalum: Joined at the Hip (1996, Evosound -19) [2019-12-13] - jazz
- Alain Jean-Marie: The Complete Alain Jean-Marie Biguine Reflections (Fremeaux & Associes -19) [2019-11-19] - jazz
- Brent Jensen: The Sound of a Dry Martini: Remembering Paul Desmond (2002, Origin) [02-21] - jazz
- Etta Jones: A Soulful Sunday: Live at the Left Bank (1972, Cellar Live) [10-22] - vocal jazz
- Hank Jones Trio: Live at Jazzhus Slukefter Vol 2 (1983, Storyville) [03-13] - jazz
- Stan Kenton and His Orchestra: In a Lighter Vein (Soudns of Yesteryear) - jazz
- Stefan Keune/John Russell/Hans Schneider/Paul Lovens: Nothing Particularly Horrible: Live i Bochum '93 (FMR -19) [2019-12-01] - jazz
- King Ubu Orchestra: Concert at Town Hall/Binaurality: Live 1989 (FMP) [06-05] - jazz
- Harald Kisiedu: European Echoes: Jazz Experimentalism in Germany 1950-1975 (Wolke Verlag) - jazz
- Franz Koglmann Septet: Fruits of Solitude (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
- Peter Kowald: Total Music Meeting 1997 (Solo Bass) (FMP) - jazz
- Peter Kowald Quintet: Peter Kowald Quintet (1972, Corbett vs Dempsey) - jazz
- Wolfgang Lackerschmid/Chet Baker: Quintet Sessions 1979 (Dot Time) [11-13] - jazz
- Michel Legrand: Legrand Jazz (1958, Impex/Columbia) - jazz
- George Lewis: Rainbow Family (1984, Carrier) [10-30] - jazz
- London Jazz Composers Orchestra: That Time (1972-80, Not Two) [07-01] - jazz
- The MacroQuarktet: The Complete Night: Live at the Stone NYC (2007, Out of Your Head -2CD) [05-01] - jazz
- Jackie McLean: It's Time (1965, Blue Note Tone Poet) - jazz
- Joe McPhee: Black Is the Color: Live in Poughkeepsie and New Windsor 1969-70 (Corbett vs Dempsey -2CD) [08-14] - jazz
- Charles McPherson: Charles McPherson (1971, Mainstream) [07-16] - jazz
- Misha Mengelberg: Rituals of Transition (2002-10, I Dischi Di Agelica) [10-30] - jazz
- Jay Migliori and Dick Twardzik: Jazz Workshop Quintet: A Harvard WHRB Session (1954, Fresh Sound) [02-18] - jazz
- Juozas Milasius/Tomas Kulavicius/Dalius Naujokaitis/Lithuanian Young Composers Orchestra: Live at Willisau, 1993 (NoBusiness -20) [2020-11-15] - jazz
- Charles Mingus: @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside) [11-13] - jazz
- Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus (WaxTime in Color -19) [2019-11-00] - jazz
- Matt Mitchell/Tim Berne: 1 (2010, Screwgun) [06-05] - jazz
- The MIYUMI Project: Best of the MIYUMI Project (FPE) - jazz
- Hank Mobley: The Complete Hank Mobley Blue Note Sessions 1963-70 (Mosaic -19) [2019-12-00] - jazz
- Hank Mobley: Soul Station (Music Matters) - jazz
- Modern Jazz Quintet Karlsruhe/Four Men Only: Complete Recordings (1968-73, NoBusiness -3CD) [07-20] - jazz
- Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto (Impulse) [09-18] - jazz
- Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane: Monk's Music (1957, American Jazz Classics) - jazz
- Michael Moore/Simon Nabatov: Ancient Sorrow (1998, Ramboy) [10-07] - jazz
- Reggie Moore: Furioso (1972, Mainstream) - jazz
- Lon Moshe & the Southern Freedom Arkestra: Love Is Where the Spirit Lies (Strut) [12-15] - jazz
- New Stories: Speakin' Out (Origin) [02-21] - jazz
- New York Contemporary Five: Consequences Revisited (1963-64, Ezz-thetics) - jazz
- Nublu Orchestra Conducted by Butch Morris: Live in Bergamo (2008, Nublu) [06-26] - jazz
- Nublu Orchestra Conducted by Butch Morris: Live in Sao Paulo (2008, Nublu) [07-31] - jazz
- Nublu Orchestra Conducted by Butch Morris: Live in Paris (2010, Nublu) [08-28] - jazz
- Eivind Opsvik: Overseas Live 2002-2012 (Loyal Label) [06-19] - jazz
- The Outskirts: You Deserve to Dance (2009, Aerophonic) [07-01] - jazz
- Owl Xounds Exploding Galaxy: The Coalescence (ESP-Disk) [06-26] - jazz
- Tony Oxley: February Papers (1977, Discus Music) [07-02] - jazz
- Charlie Parker: The Savoy 10-inch LP Collection (1944-48, Craft) [02-28] - jazz
- Charlie Parker: The Birth of BeBop: Celebrating Bird at 100: Selections From the Dial and Savoy Recordings (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
- Charlie Parker: Bebop Live (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
- Evan Parker/Agusti Fernandez: Tempranillo (1995, Fundacja Sluchaj) [09-15] - jazz
- Lenny Pickett: Bad Dreams (1988, self-released) - jazz
- Marvin Pontiac: The Asylum Tapes (2017, Northern Spy) [08-29] - jazz
- Steve Potts: Musique Pour Le Film D'un Ami (1975, Souffle Continu) [10-01] - jazz
- Prezens: XForm (2007, Screwgun) [12-04] - jazz
- Dudu Pukwana: Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears" (1968-69, Matsuli Music) [06-22] - jazz
- Sun Ra Arkestra: Heliocentric Worlds 1 & 2 Revisited (Ezz-thetics) [01-31] - jazz
- Sun Ra: Celestial Love (1982, Modern Harmonic) [04-03] - jazz
- Sun Ra & His Arkestra: Unity: Live at Storyville New York October 1977 (Enterplanetary Koncepts) [10-08] - jazz
- Sun Ra: Dark Myth Equation Visitation (1971, Strut) [11-13] - jazz
- Sun Ra: Haverford College 1980 (Enterplanetary Koncepts) [01-10] - jazz
- Sun Ra Arkestra: Egypt 1971 (Strut -4CD) [11-13] - jazz
- Sun Ra: Celestial Love (1982, Modern Harmonic) - jazz
- Sam Rivers: Ricochet [Sam Rivers Archive Project, Volume 3] (1978, NoBusiness) [05-20] - jazz
- Sam Rivers Quartet: Braids (NoBusiness) [11-15] - jazz
- Hank Roberts/Tim Berne: Cause and Reflect (1998, Screwgun) [06-05] - jazz
- Sonny Rollins: Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance) [12-04] - jazz
- Gene Russell: New Direction (1971, Real Gone Music) [08-26] - jazz
- The Ray Russell Quartet: Spontaneous Event: Live Vol 1: 1967-69 (Jazz in Britain) [05-01] - jazz
- Pharoah Sanders: Live in Paris 1975: Lost ORTF Recordings (Transversales Disque) [03-13] - jazz
- Hideto Sasaki-Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet Plus 1: Stop Over (1976, BBE) [03-27] - jazz
- Drew Schlesinger & David Torn: Summer Synthesis 1978 (self-released) - jazz
- Shirley Scott: One for Me (Arc) [05-22] - jazz
- Second Sight: Tiger Tracks (1987, Sunjump) [07-20] - jazz
- Bobby Shew/Bill Mays: Telepathy (1978, Fresh Sound -19) [2019-11-07] - jazz
- The Ibrahim Khalil Shihab Quartet Featuring Mankunku: Spring (1968, Matsuli Music) [12-07] - jazz
- Edward Simon: 25 Years (1995-2018, Ridgeway -2CD) [10-09] - jazz
- Nina Simone: Fodder on My Wings (1982, Verve) [04-03] - vocal jazz
- Nina Simone: I Put a Spell on You (1965, Verve) [09-11] - vocal jazz
- Nina Simone: Pastel Blue (1965, Verve) [09-11] - vocal jazz
- Nina Simone: Nina Sione and Piano! (Music on Vinyl) - jazz
- Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes: Expansions (Ace) - jazz
- SPP: L'Albero Delle Meduse (2009, The Museum of Viral Memory) [05-23] - jazz
- Masayuki Takayanagi New Direction Unit: Axis/Another Revolvable Thing (1975, Blank Forms Editions) [08-07] - jazz
- Masauyki JoJo Takayanagi/Nobuyoshi Ino/Masabumi PUU Kikuchi: Live at Jazz Inn Lovely 1990 (NoBusiness) [11-15] - jazz
- Horace Tapscott Quintet: The Giant Is Awakened (1969, Real Gone Music) [03-06] - jazz
- Horace Tapscott With the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra: Ancestral Echoes: The Covina Sessions, 1976 (Dark Tree) [06-24] - jazz
- Horace Tapscott/Michael Session: Live in Avignon, France 1989 (The Village) [09-25] - jazz
- Cecil Taylor/Tony Oxley: Being Astral and All Registers/Power of Two: Live at the Ulrichsberg Festival, May 10th 2002 (Discus Music) [10-25] - jazz
- Cecil Taylor: At Angelica 2000 Bologna (I Dischi Di Angelica) [10-05] - jazz
- The John Tchicai Quartet: Live at the Stone (2007, Minus Zero) [01-17] - jazz
- TEST/Roy Campbell: TEST and Roy Campbell (1999, 577) [09-04] - jazz
- The Thing With Joe McPhee: She Knows . . . (Ezz-thetics) - jazz
- Thinking Plague: Upon Both Your Houses (Cuneiform) [01-31] - jazz
- Rene Thomas: Remembering Rene Thomas: Rare and Unreleased (1955-62, Fresh Sound -2CD) [07-16] - jazz
- Keith Tippett: The Monk Watches the Eagle (2004, Discus Music) [09-23] - jazz
- Triage: Live at the Velvet Lounge (2005, Aerophonic) [06-17] - jazz
- Lennie Tristano: The Duo Sessions (1976, Dot Time) [03-19] - jazz
- John Vanore: Primary Colors (1984-85, Acoustical Concepts) [02-07] - jazz
- Marco Von Orelli/Tommy Meier/Luca Sisera/Sheldon Suter: Lotus Crash (Ezz-Thetics) - jazz
- Phil Wachsmann: Writing in Water (1985, Corbett vs Dempsey) [10-09] - jazz
- Alan Wakeman: The Octet Broadcasts: 1969 & 1979 (Gearbox) - jazz
- Mal Waldron: Free at Last (1969, ECM -19) [2019-11-15] - jazz
- Trevor Watts: A World View (1994-2006, Fundacja Sluchaj -5CD) [11-20] - jazz
- Mike Westbrook: Love and Understanding: Citadel/Room 315 Sweden '74 (My Only Desire) [04-03] - jazz
- Andy Williams: Emperor of Easy: Lost Columbia Masters 1962-1972 (Real Gone Music) [04-03] - vocal
- Phil Woods: The Best of Phil Woods (Chesky) [03-13] - jazz
- Jack Wright/Michael Taylor: Kryptischgasse (2001, Right Brain) [09-01] - jazz
- Pete Yellin: Dance of Allegra (1972, Mainstream) - jazz
- Ivan Zagni/Steve Garden: Trouble Spots (1984, Rattle Echo) [06-08] - jazz
- John Zorn's Masada: The Best of Sanhedrin (1994-97, Tzadik) - jazz
- Blue Note Re:imagined 2020 (Blue Note) [10-16] - jazz
- Danse Macabre 2020 Vol 1 (Objet-A) [03-19] - jazz
- Danse Macabre 2020 Vol 2 (Objet-A) [04-08] - jazz
- Danse Macabre 2020 Vol 3 (Objet-A) [04-18] - jazz
- Danse Macabre 2020 Vol 4 (Objet-A) - jazz
- Miles Davis: Music From and Inspired by Birth of the Cool [A Film by Stanley Nelson] (Legacy) - jazz
- Ella 100: Live at the Apollo! (Concord) - jazz
- Eyes Shut, Ears Open: A Burning Ambulance Compilation (Burning Ambulance) [10-02] - jazz
- Martin Freeman & Eddie Piller Present Jazz on the Corner 2 (Acid Jazz UK) [07-03] - jazz
- Kaleidoscope: New Spirits Known & Unknonwn (Soul Jazz -2CD) [07-24] - jazz
- The Missing Link (1914-25, Archeophone) [02-21] - jazz
- New Horizons: Young Stars of South African Jazz (Afrosynth) [10-16] - jazz
- New Orleans Mambo: Cuba to NOLA (Putumayo World Music) [10-23] - Latin jazz
- Not Two . . . but Twenty (Not Two) - jazz
- Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story 1975-1993 (Strut) [06-27] - jazz/r&b
- Spiritual Jazz 12: Impulse! (Jazzman -2CD) [09-18] - jazz
- Tales of Wonder: A Jazz Celebration of Steve (Posi-Tone) - jazz
- Underground London: The Art Music and Free Jazz That Inspired a Cultural Revolution (Cherry Red -3CD) [03-19] - jazz
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