The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Paul Acquaro (Free Jazz Collective, Jazzpodium)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Rodrigo Amado/The Bridge, Beyond the Margins (Trost)
  2. Aruán Ortiz Trio, Serranias: Sketchbook for Piano Trio (Intakt)
  3. Ralph Towner, At First Light (ECM)
  4. John Zorn, Nothing Is as Real as Nothing (Tzadik)
  5. Tomas Fujiwara, Pith (Out of Your Head)
  6. Ivo Perelman & Matt Moran, Tuning Forks (Ibeji Music)
  7. Frode Gjerstad & Matthew Shipp, We Speak (Relative Pitch)
  8. Max Koch, Ten Bulls (Jazzwerkstatt)
  9. Christopher Dell-Christian Lillinger-Jonas Westergaard, Beats II (Plaist)
  10. Location Location Location [Michael Formanek/Anthony Pirog/Mike Pride], Damaged Goods (Cuneiform)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sam Rivers, Archive Series (1971-2002, NoBusiness)
  2. Peter Brötzmann-Fred Van Hove-Han Bennink [+ Albert Mangelsdorff], Outspan No 1/2 (1974, CienFuegos)
  3. Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Luten at Jazzwerkstatt Peitz (2011, Jazzwerkstatt)

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN

Note: Also see extended top list.