The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023
Ballot 2023
Mark Corroto (All About Jazz)
NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)
- Jason Adasiewicz, Roy's World (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
- Dave Burrell, Harlem Rhapsody (Parco Della Musica) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier, Chimaera (Intakt) →
- Kris Davis, Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic) →
- Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz, Ex Machina (Pi) →
- James Brandon Lewis Trio, Eye of I (Anti-) →
- Matt Moran-Sarah Elizabeth Charles-Curtis Hasselbring, Audible Spirits (Diskonife) →
- Russ Lossing, Alternate Side Parking Music (Aqua Piazza) →
- Roots Magic Sextet, Long Old Road: Retold Pasts and Present Day Musings (Clean Feed) →
- Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra, Family (We Jazz) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (listed alphabetically; 2 points each)
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis With Shirley Scott, Cookin' With Jaws and the Queen: The Legendary Prestige Albums (1958, Craft) →
- Bengt Frippe Nordström, Vinyl Box (1962-68, Ni Vu Ni Connu) →
- Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah [Harvest Time] (1976, Luaka Bop) →
VOCAL
- Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding, Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto) →
DEBUT
- Miha Gantar, Introducing (Clean Feed '22) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón, Musica De Las Americas (Miel Music '22) →