Top UK jazz albums 2020: full list

no. 1 Byron Wallen, Portrait: Reflections On Belonging (Twilight Jaguar) no. 2 Rob Luft, Life is the Dancer (Edition) no. 3 Django Bates, Tenacity (Lost Marble) no. 4 John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain, Is That So? (Abstract Logix)

Published: 16 Dec 2020. Updated: 3 years.

no. 1 Byron Wallen, Portrait: Reflections On Belonging (Twilight Jaguar)

no. 2 Rob Luft, Life is the Dancer (Edition)

no. 3 Django Bates, Tenacity (Lost Marble)

no. 4 John McLaughlin, Shankar Mahadevan, Zakir Hussain, Is That So? (Abstract Logix)

no. 5 Bruno Heinen trio, Out of Doors (Heinen Records)

no. 6 Gary Bartz and Maisha, Gary Bartz and Maisha (Night Dreamer)

no. 7 Nubya Garcia, Source (Concord)

no. 8 James Copus, Dusk (Ubuntu)

no. 9 Martin Pyne, Spirits Of Absent Dancers (Discus Music)

no. 10 Moses Boyd, Dark Matter (Exodus)

The marlbank albums of the year, overall 2020 list, will be published on Thursday 31 December round midnight.

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After a couple of ones, solo records, and then to come twos, duos, in prospect ''345'' counts in as 2020 moves on to 21. Saxophonist Luigi Grasso, pianists Yaron Herman and Laurent Courthaliac and entrepreneur Peter Schnur are behind the new French

Published: 16 Dec 2020. Updated: 3 years.

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After a couple of ones, solo records, and then to come twos, duos, in prospect ''345'' counts in as 2020 moves on to 21. Saxophonist Luigi Grasso, pianists Yaron Herman and Laurent Courthaliac and entrepreneur Peter Schnur are behind the new French LP345 Records issuing piano solo records by the Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud Miles Davis legend René Urtreger and by Kurt Rosenwinkel. Concentrating on vinyl and digital formats LP345 releases to look for in 2021 are to come from the duos of Nicole Glover/Alexander Claffy; Kevin Hays/Yotam Silberstein; Johnny O’Neal/Paul Sikivie; and David Kikoski/Peter Bernstein.