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.