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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Rob Shepherd (PostGenre Media)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
  2. Brandon Ross Phantom Station, Off the End (Sunnyside) →
  3. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
  4. David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) →
  5. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
  6. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
  7. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81) →
  8. Kenny Garrett & Svoy, Who Killed AI? (Mack Avenue) →
  9. Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
  10. Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  2. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
  3. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
  4. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
  5. Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →