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15 Great Jazz Albums of 2020
Jazz may not have the mainstream cultural dominance that it once did, but it remains a thriving, multi-faceted form of music that continues to have so much more to say. Jazz informs so much of the rap and electronic music that
does have mainstream cultural dominance today, and it s long popped up in indie rock, metal, punk, and other styles of popular music too. Though jazz never went away, the past few years have seen a serious jazz renaissance that continues to grow, branch out into new innovative territory, and attract new listeners. The world of jazz is so vast and we don t claim to be experts of all of it, but if you re looking to catch up on some of the great jazz albums released in 2020, we put together a list of 15 that we strongly recommend. It s not a definitive best-of, and we probably haven t even heard all of the great jazz albums released this year, but we d like to think it s a pretty good place to start.
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The 10 best LA albums of 2020 [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MUS-BESTOFYEAR-LA-ALBUMS:LA]
For reasons too obvious to note, those of us with any sense spent an inordinate amount of time surrounded by four walls and consumed with well-founded dread. Time crawled. Doomscrolling made it worse. Sometimes the only way to distinguish one Blursday from the next was by recalling what series or Ben & Jerry’s pint you binged on.
Los Angeles musicians, as usual, stepped up when we needed them most, filling the sheer volume of unstructured time with organized, or joyfully disorganized, noise. Best, the wide-open days and nights allowed for the kind of deep, uninterrupted listening that rewarded patience. Below, 10 of the best albums by Los Angeles-based artists.