Best of 2020: Jon Jon Scott

Let’s not sugarcoat it: this year sucked. We’ll leave it to better writers and bigger thinkers to make context of this smoldering heap of a year, but we at least have some thoughts on music that came out this year. Check out Reviler contributor Jon Jon Scott’s favorite music and reissues of 2020.

1. Shabaka And The Ancestors – We Are Sent Here By History

2. Jay Electronica – A Written Testimony

3. Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind

4. Jamael Dean – Black Space Tapes

5. Actress – Karma & Desire

6. Pink Siifu & Fly Anakin – Fly Siifu’s

7. Jahari Masamba Unit – Pardon My French 

8. Tricky – Fall to Pieces

9. Knxwledge – 1988

10. Soul Jazz Records: Kaleidoscope – New Spirits Known & Unknown

11. Sault – Untitled (Black Is)

12. Apollo Brown & Che Noir – … As God Intended

13. Muja Messiah –  Flowers Blossom On Top Of Coffins

14. Polica – When We Stay Alive

15. Kelly Lee Owens – Inner Song

16. Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger – Force Mature

17. Thundercat – It Is What It Is

18. Dua Selah – Rosetta

19. Immanuel Wilkins – Omega

20. Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven – We’re New Again: A Reimagining By Makaya McCraven

Reissues

1. John Coltrane – Giant Steps

2. Thelonious Monk – Palo Alto

3. Walter Bishop – Coral Keys

4. PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love

5. Doug Carn – Spirit of the New Land

6. Awakened – Here, Sense and Feel

7. Prince – Sign Of The Times (Super Deluxe Edition)

8. Sade – This Far

9. Stanley Turrentine – Hustlin’

10. Rammellzee Vs. K-Rob – Beat Bop