Critics’ Picks: The Best Albums of 2020


Each year, we ask our writers and editors to select their top 10 albums of the past 12 months. Even in a year as fraught as this one — COVID-19, economic hardship, racial strife and election uncertainty — jazz artists produced some outstanding work. Here are the albums that made enduring the period between September

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