2020 Jazz Albums of The Year: James Copus / 'Dusk'

TDF’s Max Mazonowicz describes the album as, “the sheer joyfulness that is evident throughout the whole venture.”

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Our three favourite jazz albums of 2020 are covered in The Digital Fix Albums of 2020 (Kruder & Dorfmeister's 1995, Shabaka and the Ancestors' We Are Sent Here by History and Tigran Hamasyan's The Call Within), but while the young British jazz scene featuring Moses Boyd, Kokoroko, Nerija, Seed Ensemble, Nubya Garcia and the Ezra Collective didn't make as much of an impact as the previous year, 2020 was nonetheless an exceptional year in for established jazz musicians like Gary Bartz, Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman as well as for other young rising stars like Immanuel Wilkins, Ellen Andrea Wang, Rob Luft and James Copus.