This week’s podcast starts off with a 1 1/2 minute ditty meant to describe 2020. And he recorded it in January of that year. How did Dan Rosenboom know what was coming?

I play a few tracks from albums that various critics think are the best of 2020, plus one that might be in somebody’s list for next year (maybe mine). That one is by Sue Maskaleris and her intriguing album called Love is The Key.

I also play a track from an historical album….a previously unreleased recording session from Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, featuring Hank Mobley.

The other 2020 albums are by

-Aaron Diehl,

-Poncho Sanchez,

-Artemis,

-Montreal’s Jean-Pierre Zanella,

-John Beasley and his Monk’estra,

-Irreversible Entanglements,

-Sharel Cassity

-Gregoire Maret, Romain Collin, and Bill Frisell.

By going through various critics lists, I’m discovering that here really is interesting jazz still being produced!

Next week: a jazz preview to the Grammys.