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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Ken Dryden (New York City Jazz Record, Hot House, Timeless Jazz [WUTC-FM], All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles McPherson, Reverence (Smoke Sessions) →
  2. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
  3. Denny Zeitlin, Panoply (Sunnyside) →
  4. Marshall Gilkes and WDR Big Band, Life Songs (Alternate Side) →
  5. Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) →
  6. Ken Peplowski, Unheard Bird (Arbors) →
  7. Jon Gordon, 7th Ave South (ArtistShare) →
  8. Dave Pietro, The Talisman (SteepleChase) →
  9. Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, Remembrance (Thirty Tigers) →
  10. Chris Byars, Boptics (SteepleChase) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
  2. Nat King Cole, Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic) →
  3. Don Byas, Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic '23) →
  4. Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
  5. The Oscar Pettiford Memorial Concert (1960, SteepleChase) →