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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Derk Richardson (The Absolute Sound, KPFA 94.1 FM [Berkeley])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Zen Widow, IV (From One Dark Age to Another) (Objet-a '23) →
  2. Kaze, Unwritten (Circum/Libra) →
  3. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) →
  4. Robin Holcomb, One Way or Another, Vol. 2 (Westerlies) →
  5. The London Experimental Ensemble With Richard Thompson, Wesley Stace, Sivert Hayem, Marissa Nadler and Gina Fergione, Child Ballads: The Final Six (Don Giovanni '23) →
  6. Modney, Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic) →
  7. Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey, Archaisms II (Meta) →
  8. Anthony Pirog, The Nepenthe Series Vol. 1 (Otherly Love '23) →
  9. Ryan Truesdell, Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare) →
  10. Michael Shrieve, Drums of Compassion (7D Media) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
  3. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
  4. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
  5. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →