Jazz Critics Poll ballot short list/early 2020 faves rough draft

With the deadline for submitting my Jazz Critics Poll ballot approaching, I figured I'd do something different and post a short list here, culled from my hand written notes, numbering 30 albums (I had to stop somewhere). It can double as a sort of "faves of the wretched year of 2020" rough draft. The "vaccine efficacy" rating is just a playful way of suggesting the likelihood that the releases will be ending up among the final 10. A star denotes I've covered the album in writing. I'll publish a more thorough "review of the year" (2020 is not over yet) in early January next year.

95% vaccine efficacy

• Gard Nilssen Supersonic Orchestra: If You Listen Carefully the Music Is Yours (ODIN) *
  
• Aly Keita, Jan Galega Brönnimann, Lucas Niggli: Kalan Teban (Intakt) *
  
• Irreversible Entanglements: Who Sent You? (International Anthem) *
• I.P.A.: Bashing Mushrooms (Cuneiform) *
• Eric Revis: Slipknots Through a Looking Glass (Pyroclastic Records) *
  
• Skurkar: Skjulte Motiver (Øra Fonogram) *
• Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra: Dimensional Stardust (International Anthem)
• Matthew Shipp: The Piano Equation (Tao Forms) *

94,5% vaccine efficacy

• Andreas Røysum Ensemble: Andreas Røysum Ensemble (Motvind)
• Anna Högberg Attack: Lena (Omlott) *
  
• James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Molecular (Intakt) *
• Okkyung Lee: Yeo-Neun (Shelter Press)
• Camila Nebbia: Aura (ears&eyes Records) *
  
• Superposition: Superposition (We Jazz Records) *
• Shabaka and the Ancestors: We Are Sent Here By History (Impulse!) *
  
• Lisa Mezzacappa Six: Cosmicomics (Queen Bee Records) *
  
• Sigurd Hole: Lys/Mørke (Elvesang) *
  
• Torbjörn Zetterberg & Den Stora Frågan: Are You Happy? (Moserobie Recordings) 
• Otis Sandsjö: Y-OTIS 2 (We Jazz)
  
• Luke Stewart: Luke Stewart Exposure Quartet (Astral Spirits)
• Ingrid Laubrock: Dreamt Twice, Twice Dreamt (Intakt)

92% vaccine efficacy

• Moskus: Live på Victoria (Earthly Habits) *
  
• Terje Rypdal: Conspiracy (ECM) *
  
• Maria Kannegaard Trio: Sand I En Vik (Jazzland)
• Rudresh Mahanthappa: Hero Trio (Whirlwind Records) *
  
• Barrage: The Was and Is to Come (Øra Fonogram) *
  
• Orientation of We: Emergence (Off)
  
• Wako: Wako (Øra Fonogram)
• Hegge: Feeling (Particular Recordings) *
• Ambrose Akinmusire: On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note Records/Universal) *