The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024 Mid-Year

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Eyal Hareuveni (Free Jazz Blog, Salt Peanuts)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kim Myhr & Kitchen Orchestra, Hereafter (Sofa Music) →
  2. Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger, Dans le Morvan (Relative Pitch) →
  3. Stian Westerhus & Maja S. K. Ratkje, All Losses Are Restored (Crispin Glover) →
  4. Joe McPhee With Ken Vandermark, Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
  5. Izumi Kimura-Barry Guy-Gerry Hemingway, Six Hands Open as One (Fundacja Słuchaj) →
  6. Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House) →
  7. John Butcher + 13, Fluid Fixations (Weight of Wax) →
  8. Splitter Orchester, Splitter Musik (Hyperdelia) →
  9. Jürg Frey, Outermost Melodies (Another Timbre) →
  10. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Die Like a Dog [Peter Brötzmann-Toshinori Kondo-William Parker-Hamid Drake], Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler (1994, Cien Fuegos) →
  2. Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love, Chicken Shit Bingo (2015, Trost) →
  3. Peter Brötzmann-Toshinori Kondo-Sabu Toyozumi, Complete Link (2016, NoBusiness) →
  4. Anthony Braxton, Solo Bern 1984 [First Visit] (Ezz-Thetics) →
  5. Paal Nilssen-Love & Ken Vandermark, Japan 2019 (PNL/Audiographic) →