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)

VOCAL

DEBUT

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