The 17th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll:
2022
Past Polls Index
New Albums Rara Avis Debuts Latin Vocals
Critics
Acquaro - CantorChacona - FrancklingFreeman - HolleyHollis - KunianLange - MooreMorrison - SchepperSchmidt - vanTriktWalls - Yanow

2022 Totals: Vocals

  1. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Ghost Song (Nonesuch) 53
  2. Samara Joy, Linger Awhile (Verve) 12
  3. Catherine Russell, Send for Me (Dot Time) 5
  4. Roxana Amed, Unánime (Sony Music Latin) 4
  5. Claudia Acuña, Duo (Ropeadope) 3
  6. Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Blank Canvas (Stretch/Ropeadope) 2
  7. Dandy Dandie, Hypnos & Morphee (Yolk Music) 2
  8. Gerry Hemingway, Afterlife (Auricle) 2
  9. Sheila Jordan, Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Live) 2
  10. Moor Mother, Jazz Codes (Anti-) 2
  11. Maggie Nicols, Are You Ready? (Otoroku) 2
  12. Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos-Rebecca Martin-Larry Grenadier, After Midnight (CARA) 2
  13. Kate Baker & Vic Juris, Return to Shore: The Duo Sessions (Strikezone) 1
  14. Camille Bertault & David Helbock, Playground (ACT) 1
  15. Amy K. Bormet, Tell Me What It's Like (Strange Woman) 1
  16. Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Odyssey Opera, Anthony Davis: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (BMOP Sound) 1
  17. Sarah Buechi-Franz Hellmueller-Rafael Jerjen, Moon Trail (Intakt) 1
  18. Charming Hostess, The Ginzburg Geography (Tzadik) 1
  19. Chicago Soul Jazz Collective Meets Dee Alexander, On the Way to Be Free (JMarq) 1
  20. Natalie Cressman & Ian Faquini, Auburn Whisper (GroundUP) 1
  21. Eliane Elias, Quietude (Candid) 1
  22. Kurt Elling, SuperBlue: The London Sessions (Edition) 1
  23. Giacomo Gates, You (Savant) 1
  24. Sam Gendel & Antonia Cytrynowicz, Live a Little (Psychic Hotline) 1
  25. Jo Harrop, The Heart Wants (Lateralize '21) 1
  26. Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (Blue Note) 1
  27. Robin Holcomb, One Way or Another, Vol. 1 (Songlines) 1
  28. Aubrey Johnson & Randy Ingram, Play Favorites (Sunnyside) 1
  29. George V Johnson Jr, Walk Spirit Talk Spirit (Your Majesty) 1
  30. Meschiya Lake & the New Movement, Looking the World Over (Sungroove) 1
  31. Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone, Xaybu: The Unseen (Pi) 1
  32. Carmen Lundy, Fade to Black (Afrasia Productions) 1
  33. Karen Marguth, Until (OA2 '21) 1
  34. Tumi Mogorosi, Group Theory: Black Music (Mushroom Hour Half Hour/New Soil) 1
  35. Joyce Moreno, Brasileiras Canções (Biscoito Fino) 1
  36. Fred Moten-Brandon Lopez-Gerald Cleaver, Moten/Lopez/Cleaver (Reading Group) 1
  37. Paal Nilssen-Love Circus, Pairs of Three (PNL) 1
  38. Lina Nyberg Band, Anniverse (Hoob) 1
  39. Mali Obomsawin, Sweet Tooth (Out of Your Head) 1
  40. William Parker, Universal Tonality (2002, Centering/AUM Fidelity) 1
  41. Tomeka Reid-Kyoko Kitamura-Taylor Ho Bynum-Joe Morris, Geometry of Trees (Relative Pitch) 1
  42. Sélène Saint-Aimé, Potomitan (Komos) 1
  43. Elliott Sharp & Eric Mingus, Songs From a Rogue State (Zoar) 1
  44. Carol Sloane, Live at Birdland (Club 44) 1
  45. Somi, Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba (Salon Africana) 1
  46. Sonic Liberation Front and the Sonic Liberation Singers, Justice: The Vocal Works of Oliver Lake (High Two) 1
  47. Peter Stampfel, Peter Stampfel's 20th Century in 100 Songs (Louisiana Red Hot '21) 1
  48. Melissa Stylianou, Dream Dancing (Anzic) 1
  49. Xiomara Torres, La Voz Del Mar (Patois) 1
  50. Eri Yamamoto Trio, A Woman With a Purple Wig (Mahakala Music) 1
  51. Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Jazz Is Dead 12: Jean Carne (Jazz Is Dead) 1

Critics were asked to name one album apiece, with no point system.

Albums that received votes this year that received votes in 2021: