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Fantasy Jazz Festival

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By Michael Ricci
January 5, 2021
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We conducted three polls in 2020 with the goal of identifying the top jazz record labels, the top jazz cities, as well as who our readers would book at their "fantasy" jazz festival. Of the 118,200+ musicians and bands listed in our database, the following received the most fantasy festival votes:

1
Chick Corea
2
Pat Metheny
3
Herbie Hancock
4
Bill Frisell
5
Christian McBride
6
Brian Blade
7
Dave Holland
8
Keith Jarrett
9
Kamasi Washington
10
Carla Bley
11
John McLaughlin
12
John Scofield
13
Mary Halvorson
14
Wayne Shorter
15
Chris Potter
16
Brad Mehldau
17
Maria Schneider
18
Charles Lloyd
19
Vijay Iyer
20
Esperanza Spalding
21
Snarky Puppy
22
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
23
Henry Threadgill
24
Joshua Redman
25
Jazzmeia Horn
26
Joey DeFrancesco
27
Makaya McCraven
28
Hiromi
29
Ravi Coltrane
30
Eliane Elias
31
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
32
Wynton Marsalis
33
Matthew Shipp
34
David Murray
35
Ambrose Akinmusire
36
John Zorn
37
Kurt Elling
38
Tim Berne
39
Jack DeJohnette
40
Nik B?rtsch
41
Ron Carter
42
Rob Mazurek
43
Gregory Porter
44
Cecile McLorin Salvant
45
Robert Glasper
46
James Carter
47
Pharoah Sanders
48
Sun Ra Arkestra
49
Terri Lyne Carrington
50
Kurt Rosenwinkel
51
Mike Stern
52
Theo Croker
53
George Benson
54
Ken Vandermark
55
Kenny Barron
56
Trombone Shorty
57
Tyshawn Sorey
58
Diana Krall
59
William Parker
60
Anthony Braxton
61
Kris Davis
62
Peter Evans
63
Ahmad Jamal
64
Yazz Ahmed
65
Anna Webber
66
Joey Alexander
67
Marcus Miller
68
Peter Erskine
69
Marc Copland
70
Melody Gardot
71
Terence Blanchard
72
Ingrid Laubrock
73
Sean Jones
74
Tony Bennett
75
Art Ensemble Of Chicago
76
Monty Alexander
77
Steely Dan
78
Dave Douglas
79
Stefon Harris
80
Wycliffe Gordon
81
Joe Locke
82
Tigran Hamasyan
83
Jeff Beck
84
John Patitucci
85
Satoko Fujii
86
Kneebody
87
Jonathan Kreisberg
88
Donny McCaslin
89
Lee Ritenour
90
Earl Klugh
91
Billy Harper
92
Harry Connick, Jr.
93
Fred Hersch
94
Steve Coleman
95
Scott Henderson
96
Roy Haynes
97
Tal Wilkenfeld
98
Marcus Strickland
99
Vinnie Colaiuta
100
Avishai Cohen

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