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Popular Jazz Songs: 2020

By Michael Ricci
January 1, 2021
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All About Jazz tracks how often a featured song is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2020. If you missed them the first time around, give them a listen now, and enjoy!

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Did Mark Murphy Believe In UFOS?

Tony Adamo

vocals
b.1965

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Did Mark Murphy Believe In UFOS?
Ropeadope
Featured: February 22, 2020

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Cache-Cash

Sal La Rocca

bass, acoustic
b.1961

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Shifted
Igloo Records & El Negocito Records
Featured: February 6, 2020

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Song for Pina

Enzo Torregrossa

bass, acoustic

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Song for Pina
Zone Records
Featured: September 16, 2020

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Smile

Bill Warfield

trumpet

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Smile
Planet Arts Records
Featured: July 1, 2020

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Bai?o Cansado

Ramiro Pinheiro

guitar
b.1980

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Bai?o Cansado
La C��pula Music
Featured: April 28, 2020

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In Defense of the Minotaur

Peter Slavov

bass

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Little Stories
Slavov Music
Featured: June 29, 2020

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Lustro

Przemyslaw Straczek

guitar
b.1976

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Fig Tree
Es Art
Featured: February 19, 2020

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Chicken Tenders

Daniel Mandrychenko

piano

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Anti
Tompkins Square
Featured: January 22, 2020

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Unraveled

Aubrey Johnson

vocals
b.1985

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Unraveled
Outside in Music
Featured: July 9, 2020

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Lonely Hearts

Petr Cancura

saxophone
b.1977

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Another Way Home
Roots2Boot
Featured: March 3, 2020

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Kowabunga

Manteca

band / ensemble / orchestra

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Augmented Indifference
Self Produced
Featured: January 29, 2020

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Blackfoot Blueprint

Greg Snedeker

piano

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Corners of the Sky
Riverview Productions
Featured: March 10, 2020

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Poinciana

Susie Meissner

vocals

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I Wish I Knew
Lydian Jazz Records
Featured: October 1, 2020

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The Upside of Lonely

Brian Nova

guitar
b.1961

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The Upside Of Lonely
Vivify Music, Inc.
Featured: April 30, 2020

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Love Love now in you heart

Tommaso Monopoli

drums
b.1956

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Accidental Rolling
Self Produced
Featured: February 20, 2020

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The Silent Cry

James Hill

trumpet

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Higienopolis
Self Produced
Featured: January 8, 2020

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Canon

Randy Hoexter

piano

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Fromage
Self Produced
Featured: January 5, 2020

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Dust City (for Beijing)

OZMA

band / ensemble / orchestra
b.2001

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Hyperlapse
Cristal Records / Berthold Records
Featured: May 29, 2020

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Bunganga

Audrey Ochoa

trombone

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Frankenhorn
Chronograph Records
Featured: January 30, 2020

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Martingale

Denman Maroney

piano
b.1949

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Martingale
Self Produced
Featured: August 8, 2020

On Afan's Dance

Simon Deeley

piano
b.1957

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Afan's Dance
Self Produced
Featured: June 4, 2020

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