The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Bill Brownlee (Plastic Sax, KCUR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sebastian Rochford & Kit Downes, A Short Diary (ECM) →
  2. Jason Moran, From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (Yes) →
  3. Sylvie Courvoisier, Chimaera (Intakt) →
  4. Kassa Overall, Animals (Warp) →
  5. Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Our Daily Bread (ECM) →
  6. Henry Threadgill Ensemble, The Other One (Pi) →
  7. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Mélusine (Nonesuch) →
  8. Aja Monet, When the Poems Do What They Do (Drink Sum Wtr) →
  9. Matt Otto, Umbra (Origin) →
  10. Irreversible Entanglements, Protect Your Light (Impulse!) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charlie Parker-Dizzy Gillespie-Bud Powell-Charles Mingus-Max Roach, Hot House: The Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Recordings (1953, Craft) →
  2. Milford Graves With Arthur Doyle & Hugh Glover, Children of the Forest (1976, Black Editions Archive) →
  3. Abdul Wadud, By Myself: Solo Cello (1977, Gotta Groove) →

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