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Doug Collette's Best Releases Of 2020

By Doug Collette
January 12, 2021
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Given the challenging year that was 2020, "Best of..." lists may turn out to be the high points of the last twelve months. Certainly there were times in the spring when it seemed as though a drought of new music might be inescapable, but as summer turned to fall, the titles kept rolling out, with the usual clockwork regularity (almost). Here, then, is music worth remembering, released during a time mostly worth forgetting.

Kim Simmonds/Savoy Brown
Ain't Done Yet
Quarto Valley Records

Holly Bowling
Seeking All That's Left Unsung
Self-Produced

Fred Hersch
Songs From Home
Palmetto Records

Pat Metheny
From This Place
Nonesuch Records

Brad Mehldau
Suite: April 2020
Nonesuch

Joshua Redman/Brad Mehldau/Christian McBride/Brian Blade
RoundAgain
Nonesuch Records

Mike Dillon
Rosewood
Royal Potato Family

Thana Alexa
ONA
Self-Produced

Will Bernard
Freelance Subversives
Ropeadope

Billy Martin
Guilty
Self-Produced

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