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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Michael J. West (DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
  2. Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
  3. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
  4. Gregory Tardy, In His Timing (WJ3 '23) →
  5. Jeremy Pelt, Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote) →
  6. Amanda Whiting, The Liminality of Her (First Word) →
  7. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
  8. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
  9. Muriel Grossmann, Devotion (Third Man '23) →
  10. divr, Is This Water (We Jazz) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
  2. Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
  3. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
  4. Jessica Williams, Orgonomic Muic (1981, Sundazed) →
  5. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →