The Roots Music Report's
Top Jazz Album Chart
for the Year of 2020
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All Rise | Gregory Porter | Decca | Jazz |
| 2 | Pick Me Up off the Floor | Norah Jones | Blue Note | Contemporary Jazz |
| 3 | I Just Want to Be Horizontal | Samoa Wilson with the Jim Kweskin Band | Kingswood | Ragtime |
| 4 | Artspoke the Best of (2007-2018) | Stu Hamm | Guitar One | Fusion |
| 5 | 2020 Hindsight | Grant Ferguson | Guitar One | Fusion |
| 6 | Florida Rays | Flying Horse Big Band | Self-Release | Big Band |
| 7 | The Sphynx | Jonathan NG | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 8 | Human Revolution | Zen Zadravec | Marmite | Contemporary Jazz |
| 9 | Valve Bone Woe (with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble) | Chrissie Hynde | BMG | Jazz |
| 10 | I Love to See You Smile | 3D Jazz Trio | Self-Release | Classic Jazz |
| 11 | The Story Behind the Story | David Boswell | My Quiet Moon | Contemporary Jazz |
| 12 | Stuff I Heard | Troy Roberts | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| 13 | Only Love | Anson Wright | Saphu | Jazz |
| 14 | More Than a Song | CeCe Gable | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| 15 | Look for the Light | Jeff Reed | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| 16 | Unlayered | Enrique Haneine | Elegant Walk | Contemporary Jazz |
| 17 | Kayleidoscope | Kayle Brecher | Penchant Four | Jazz |
| 18 | Hindsight | Elsa Nilsson | Bumblebee Collective | Contemporary Jazz |
| 19 | Never More Here | Michael Dease | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| 20 | Crossover (feat. Nicky Orta & Abel Pabon) | Jorge Garcia | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 21 | Looking Back: Play It Again... | Herb Silverstein & Michael Ross | Silver Tunes | Traditional Jazz |
| 22 | You Must Believe in Spring | Sue Anne Gershenzon | Self-Release | Traditional Jazz |
| 23 | Lost in Centralia | Project Alcazar | Guitar One | Fusion |
| 24 | Rearranged | Jenny Davis | Three Penny | Jazz |
| 25 | Standard Deviation | Wayne Alpern | Henri Elkan | Jazz |
| 26 | Incontre (feat. Dayna Stephens, Sam Yahel & Jongkuk Kim) | Massimo Biolcati | Sounderscore | Contemporary Jazz |
| 27 | Modern Ancestors | Carmen Lundy | Afrasia | Jazz |
| 28 | Survival Instinct: the Evilution of the Pack | Justin Varnes | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 29 | Conspiracy | Rich Willey | Wise Cat | Jazz |
| 30 | The Women Who Raised Me | Kandace Springs | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 31 | Capturing Clouds | Tamuz Nissim | Streetofstars | Jazz |
| 32 | Fierce Heart | David Bach | Integrity Music | Contemporary Jazz |
| 33 | So in Love | Chris Rottmayer & Ashley Locheed | Timucua Arts Foundation | Crossover Jazz |
| 34 | Scarab | Wayne Alpern | Henri Elkan | Crossover Jazz |
| 35 | Pure Imagination | Amber Weekes | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 36 | Hit It | BK Trio | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| 37 | The Fine Line | Bob Sheppard | Challenge | Jazz |
| 38 | Audacity | Buster Williams | Smoke Sessions | Jazz |
| 39 | Reincarnation | Warren Wolf | Mack Ave | Jazz |
| 40 | The Ripple | Jeff Rupert with George Garzone | Rupe Media | Mainstream Jazz |
| 41 | Passion - Latin Jazz | Raquel Cepeda | Self-Release | Latin Jazz |
| 42 | Rubberband | Miles Davis | Rhino | Jazz |
| 43 | Keep on Running | Robben Ford | Concord | Jazz |
| 44 | Fool's Journey | Matt DeMerritt | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| 45 | Star People Nation | Theo Croker | Sony | Jazz |
| 46 | Far out Exchange | Scott Brown & David Schlossberg | Self-Release | Fusion |
| 47 | Dreamers Do | Kat Edmonson | Spinnerette | Jazz |
| 48 | Warna | Joey Alexander | Verve | Jazz |
| 49 | Electric Fantastic | The Moore-McColl Jazz Society | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| 50 | Truth | Seth Weaver Big Band | Outside In Music | Big Band |
| 51 | Duets | Kevin Eubanks & Stanley Jordan | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| 52 | Free As the Birds | Jay Phelps | Ropeadope LLC | Jazz |
| 53 | Sugar Drops | Davina and The Vagabonds | Red House | Jazz |
| 54 | Straight Up Guitar | Jurgen Burdorf | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 55 | East West: Music for Big Bands | Michael Zilber | Origin | Big Band |
| 56 | Quatro | Douyé | Rhombus | Jazz |
| 57 | Exposure | Roberto Restuccia | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 58 | Miki | Miki Yamanaka | Cellar Live | Jazz |
| 59 | Dialogue | Christopher Hollyday | JazzBeat | Jazz |
| 60 | Days Like These | Troy Roberts | Toy Robot Music | Jazz |
| 61 | On These Streets (A Baltimore Story) | Todd Marcus | Stricker Street | Jazz |
| 62 | Uptown | The Fat Babies | Delmark | Jazz |
| 63 | Jazz is Dead 001 | Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Jazz is Dead | Crossover Jazz |
| 64 | Bijou Voyou Caillou | Florian Pellissier Quintet | Heavenly Sweetness | Jazz |
| 65 | The Music of Wayne Shorter (feat. Wayne Shorter) | Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra | Blue Engine | Big Band |
| 66 | New Sounds from the Jazz Age | Lizzie Thomas | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 67 | Sunday at Pilars | Chris Rottmayer | Pilars | Traditional Jazz |
| 68 | Humanity | Humanity Quartet | Cellar Live | Jazz |
| 69 | Luziades (feat. Sébastien Barrier, Xavier Parlant & Clément Denis) | Silvia Ribeiro Ferreira | Laborie Jazz | Jazz |
| 70 | Point of View | Abisko Lights | Fine music | Jazz |
| 71 | Valentine | Bill Frisell | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 72 | The Vagabond | Aaron Diehl | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| 73 | Crazy Time | Shuffle Demons | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 74 | Sun on Sand | Joshua Redman & Brooklyn Rider | Nonesuch | Jazz |
| 75 | Arvoles | Avishai Cohen Trio | Razdaz | Jazz |
| 76 | Hard Jazz | Kenny Carr | Zoozazz | Fusion |
| 77 | A Love Requited | Myele Manzanza | First Word | Fusion |
| 78 | Egyptian Secrets | The Adam Deitch Quartet | Golden Wolf | Jazz |
| 79 | Let's Go | Sam Fazio | Self-Release | Crossover Jazz |
| 80 | Falling Flowers | Erik Deutsch | Lohi | Fusion |
| 81 | A Wall Becomes a Bridge | Kendrick Scott Oracle | Blue Note | Contemporary Jazz |
| 82 | Concentric Circles | The Kenny Barron Quintet | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 83 | Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women | Alicia Olatuja | Resilience | Jazz |
| 84 | You Can't Lose with the Blues | Lafayette Harris Jr. | Savant | Jazz |
| 85 | Eclipse | Joey Alexander | Motema | Jazz |
| 86 | Chronology of a Dream: Live at the Village Vanguard | Jon Batiste | Verve | Jazz |
| 87 | Event Horizon | Event Horizon Jazz Quartet | Ehjq | Jazz |
| 88 | KingMaker | Joel Ross | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 89 | New Monk Trio | Laurent De Wilde | Gazebo | Jazz |
| 90 | United We Swing: Best of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Galas (feat. Wynton Marsalis) | Wynton Marsalis Septet | Blue Engine | Jazz |
| 91 | All in My Mind | Dr. Lonnie Smith | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 92 | Set Your Heart Free | Donna Singer | Emerald Baby | Contemporary Jazz |
| 93 | Nadi | Fazer | Squama | Jazz |
| 94 | Artemisia | Erik Friedlander | ArconomX Music | Jazz |
| 95 | Battle Cry | Virginia Schenck | Airborne Ecstasy | Jazz |
| 96 | Solidarity | Jerome Jennings | Iola | Jazz |
| 97 | Come Fall | Ellen Doty | Alma | Jazz |
| 98 | Ask for Chaos | Gilad Hekselman | Motema | Jazz |
| 99 | Come What May | Joshua Redman Quartet | Nonesuch | Jazz |
| 100 | A Thing Called Joe | Guilhem Flouzat Trio | Sunnyside | Jazz |
| 101 | European Hits | Yves Theiler | Bauer Studios | Jazz |
| 102 | The Movement Revisited: a Musical Portrait of Four Icons | Christian McBride | Mack Avenue | Big Band |
| 103 | Wind off the Hudson | Bill O'Connell | Savant | Jazz |
| 104 | Eric Alexander with Strings | Eric Alexander | Highnote | Jazz |
| 105 | Same Day Delivery: Leslie Pintchik (Live) | Leslie Pintchik | Pintchard | Jazz |
| 106 | Epilogue | Frank Cunimondo | MCG Jazz | Jazz |
| 107 | The Crossing | Frank Kohl | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| 108 | Enki | Javier Ortí Group | Rizoma | Jazz |
| 109 | Modern Flows, Vol. 2 | Marquis Hill | Black Unlimited | Jazz |
| 110 | A Jazz Celebration of the Allman Brothers Band | Big Band of Brothers | New West | Jazz |
| 111 | For 2 Akis | Shinya Fukumori Trio | ECM | Jazz |
| 112 | Asrar | Philippe El Hage | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 113 | Plays Dom Salvador | Duduka Da Fonseca Trio | Sunnyside | Jazz |
| 114 | Groove On! | Euge Groove | Shanachie Ent. Corp. | Jazz |
| 115 | Long Haul | Jessica Lurie | Chant | Jazz |
| 116 | Spangle-Lang Lane | Ryan Porter | Alpha Pup | Jazz |
| 117 | Love & Peace (with Eric Schaefer & Chris Jennings) | Joachim Kühn | ACT | Jazz |
| 118 | Sharing (feat. Thomas Fonnesbæk, Justin Kauflin & Billy Williams) | Thomas Fonnesbæk Trio | Storyville | Jazz |
| 119 | Twio | Walter Smith III | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 120 | Freedom Suite Ensuite | Clovis Nicolas | Sunnyside | Jazz |
| 121 | Live in California | Dan Costa | Self-Release | Latin Jazz |
| 122 | Brasil | Scott Wilkie | BeachMusic Studios | Latin Jazz |
| 123 | Aguas | Omar Sosa | OTA | Jazz |
| 124 | Trilogy | Chick Corea Trio | Concord | Jazz |
| 125 | Color Theory | Josh Lawrence | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| 126 | Never Stop II | The Bad Plus | Legbreaker | Jazz |
| 127 | Far from over | Vijay Iyer Sextet | ECM | Jazz |
| 128 | Eternal Life: Jeff Buckley Songs and Sounds | Negative Press Project | Ridgeway | Jazz |
| 129 | The Django Experiment III | Stephane Wrembel | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 130 | Mabern Plays Mabern | Harold Mabern | Smoke Sessions | Jazz |
| 131 | Omnisphere (feat. Alarm Will Sound) | Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood | Indirecto | Jazz |
| 132 | Before Dawn | Oddgeir Berg Trio | Ozella Music | Jazz |
| 133 | A Tuba to Cuba | Preservation Hall Jazz Band | Sub Pop | Jazz |
| 134 | Be Water | Christian Sands | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| 135 | But Beautiful | Charlotte Illinger | Double Moon | Jazz |
| 136 | While Looking Up | Jimmy Greene | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| 137 | Cinema Scenes (with Stefan Gfrerrer & Roman Werni) | Klaus Paier | ACT Music | Jazz |
| 138 | Shadow Work | Mammal Hands | Gondwana | Smooth Jazz |
| 139 | Connections | Diego Rivera | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| 140 | Alive in Harlem | Steve Slagle Trio | Panorama | Jazz |
| 141 | Elbow Grease | Alan Rosenthal | Street of Stars | Jazz |
| 142 | Moments Preserved | Sullivan Fortner | Universal Music | Jazz |
| 143 | From This Place | Pat Metheny Trio | Nonesuch | Jazz |
| 144 | Someday My Prince Will Come | Alexis Cole | Venus | Jazz |
| 145 | You Must Believe in Spring | Josie Falbo | Southport | Jazz |
| 146 | Before the Wind | Claudio Filippini | Cam Jazz | Jazz |
| 147 | Can You Imagine? | John Bailey | Freedom Road | Jazz |
| 148 | The Time We Have (Meld 1) | Don Paul | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 149 | Solitude | Frank Kohl | Self-Release | Traditional Jazz |
| 150 | 130th & Lenox | Tomas Janzon | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 151 | Rainbow Sign | Ron Miles | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 152 | Bird at 100 | Vincent Herring/Bobby Watson/Gary Bartz | Smoke Sessions | Jazz |
| 153 | Taking a Chance on Love | Linda Purl | Reaching | Traditional Jazz |
| 154 | Songs of Freedom | Ulysses Owens Jr. | Resilience | Jazz |
| 155 | A Humdrum Star | GoGo Penguin | Decca | Jazz |
| 156 | On a Smiling Gust of Wind | Florian Favre Trio | Traumton | Jazz |
| 157 | Morning Light | Ken Fowser | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| 158 | Tomorrow's New Dream | Incognito | Bluey Music Limited | Smooth Jazz |
| 159 | For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver | Christian McBride | Mack Avenue | Big Band |
| 160 | We Are Sent Here by History | Shabaka and the Ancestors | Impulse! | Jazz |
| 161 | Beyond Sunday | Jorge Rossy Vibes Quintet | jazz&people | Jazz |
| 162 | Seymour Reads the Constitution! | Brad Mehldau | Nonesuch | Jazz |
| 163 | I'm Just a Lucky So and So | Houston Person | HighNote | Jazz |
| 164 | Activate Infinity | The Bad Plus | Edition | Contemporary Jazz |
| 165 | Presence | Chuck Loeb | Christliz | Jazz |
| 166 | The Diary of Patrick Xavier | Stu Hamm | Self-Release | Fusion |
| 167 | Veritas | Alex Skolnick Trio | Palmetto | Jazz |
| 168 | Public Domain | Charlie Hunter | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 169 | Alone Together (Live in Concert) | Pat Martino | HighNote | Jazz |
| 170 | Out of Dust | Laila Biali | ACT | Jazz |
| 171 | Everybody Wins | Amendola vs. Blades | Royal Potato Family | Jazz |
| 172 | Iron Starlet | Connie Han | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| 173 | The Music Inside | Chuck Loeb | Shanachie | Jazz |
| 174 | Absurd in the Anthropocene | Dan Rosenboom | Gearbox | Jazz |
| 175 | Blue Dream | Jamie Saft Quartet | Rare Noise | Jazz |
| 176 | Dream a Little... | Champian Fulton | Cellar Live | Jazz |
| 177 | The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark | Grant Green | Blue note | Jazz |
| 178 | Patchwork | Steve Khan | Shrapnel | Latin Jazz |
| 179 | Dream Notes | Giorgia Santoro & Pat Battstone | Leo | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| 180 | Blue World | John Coltrane | Impulse! | Jazz |
| 181 | Pickin' | Tommy Emmanuel | Acoustic Disc | Jazz |
| 182 | The Upstate Project (feat. Larry Grenadier & Jeff Ballard) | Rebecca Martin | Sunnyside | Jazz |
| 183 | Te Lo Dije | Harold López-Nussa | Mack Avenue | Latin Jazz |
| 184 | Artemis | Artemis | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 185 | Love and Liberation | Jazzmeia Horn | Concord | Jazz |
| 186 | Morning Sun | Munyungo Jackson | Djembe | Jazz |
| 187 | Relaxin' with Nick | Nicholas Payton | Smoke Sessions | Jazz |
| 188 | Trane's Delight | Poncho Sanchez | Concord Picante | Jazz |
| 189 | Blue Dawn - Blue Nights | Wallace Roney | HighNote | Jazz |
| 190 | Double Live at Green Lady Lounge | Guitar Elation | Jazz Daddy | Jazz |
| 191 | All Too Soon: the Music of Duke Ellington | Rodney Whitaker | Origin | Jazz |
| 192 | For Being There | Church on Monday | Cherrywood | Mainstream Jazz |
| 193 | Hmmm | Senri Oe | Sony | Jazz |
| 194 | Acceptance | Billy Childs | Mack Avenue | Mainstream Jazz |
| 195 | This Dream of You | Diana Krall | Verve | Jazz |
| 196 | James Carter Organ Trio: Live from Newport Jazz | The James Carter Organ Trio | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 197 | Stepping out | James Saxsmo Gates | 804Jazz | Jazz |
| 198 | Clarity | Alexa Tarantino | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| 199 | The Tnek Jazz Quintet Plays the Music of Sam Jones | The Tnek Jazz Quintet | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 200 | Work | Ray Blue | Jazzheads | Jazz |
| 201 | True Love: a Celebration of Cole Porter | Harry Connick, Jr. | Verve | Jazz |
| 202 | Hand Painted Dream | Peter Hand Big Band | Savant | Jazz |
| 203 | Abiah Sings Nina | Abiah | Madoh Music Group | Jazz |
| 204 | Frank Wagner's Floating Holiday | Frank Wagner | MEII Enterprises | Contemporary Jazz |
| 205 | Igbo Alakorin (The Singer's Grove) Vol. I & II | David Virelles | El Tivoli Music | Jazz |
| 206 | Tetrahedron | Ernesto Cervini | Anzic | Jazz |
| 207 | Untitled (Rise) | Sault | Forever Living Originals | Crossover Jazz |
| 208 | My Left Hand Man: a Tribute to Mulgrew Miller | Richie Goods | Richman Music | Contemporary Jazz |
| 209 | Fruit | Charles Trudel | Charles Trudel | Jazz |
| 210 | Almería | Jessica Lauren | Freestyle | Jazz |
| 211 | Our Story | Christian Artmann | Sunnyside | Jazz |
| 212 | Temporary Kings | Mark Turner & Ethan Iverson | ECM | Jazz |
| 213 | Source | Nubya Garcia | Concord | Contemporary Jazz |
| 214 | Every Little Thing Counts | Rebecca Coupe Franks | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 215 | Brazilian Whispers | Andrea Brachfeld | Origin | Jazz |
| 216 | Just a Bit Further | Trinom3 | Cellar Live | Jazz |
| 217 | Rites of Ascension | Nick Maclean Quartet | Browntasauras | Jazz |
| 218 | Because I Loved | Deanne Matley | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 219 | Wander Wonder | Allison Au Quartet | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 220 | Les Rêves Errants | Trio Jonathan Turgeon | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 221 | The Lion, Camel & Child | Johnny Griffith Quintet | GB | Jazz |
| 222 | Vena | Rachel Therrien | Bonsaï | Jazz |
| 223 | City Abstract | Dan McCarthy | Origin | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| 224 | True Love | John Dokes | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 225 | Evolve | Sharel Cassity & Elektra | Relsha Music | Jazz |
| 226 | Flipped II | Jesse Fischer | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 227 | Pardes | Amos Hoffman & Noam Lemish | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 228 | High and Low | Sam Kirmayer | Cellar Live! | Jazz |
| 229 | Blue Soul | Dave Stryker | Strikezone | Big Band |
| 230 | Laila Biali | Laila Biali | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 231 | Toy Tunes | Larry Goldings | Pirouet | Jazz |
| 232 | Ley Lines | Emma-Jean Thackray | The Vinyl Factory | Jazz |
| 233 | Blued Dharma | Adrean Farrugia And Joel Frahm | GB | Jazz |
| 234 | Dream Logic Project | Scott Marshall and the Jazztice League | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 235 | On the Steps of St-Paul's | Huu Bac | Quach | Jazz |
| 236 | Pictures at an African Exhibition | Darryl Yokley's Sound Reformation | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 237 | A Love Letter to Lena | Clairdee | Declare | Jazz |
| 238 | Migrations | Jacques Kuba Seguin | Odd Sound | Jazz |
| 239 | Heart Tonic | Caroline Davis | Sunnyside | Jazz |
| 240 | Ubiquité | Martin Lizotte | Duprince | Jazz |
| 241 | If You Could See Me Now | Joe Magnarelli | Cellar Live | Jazz |
| 242 | Standards: What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? | Alexander Claffy | SMK Jazz | Jazz |
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