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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Richard Williams (The Blue Moment)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
  2. Michael Shrieve, Drums of Compassion (7D Media) →
  3. Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!) →
  4. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
  5. Giovanni Guidi, A New Day (ECM) →
  6. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
  7. Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →
  8. Kit Downes, Dr. Snap (Bimhuis) →
  9. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
  10. Cassie Kinoshi, Gratitude (International Anthem) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
  2. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  4. Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM) →
  5. Fingers, The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus (1979-93, Jazz in Britain) →