The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Alain Drouot (Downbeat, Citizen Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Eye of I (Anti-)
  2. Lina Allemano Four, Pipe Dream (Lumo)
  3. Anna Webber, Shimmer Wince (Intakt)
  4. Fred Frith & Susana Santos Silva, Laying Demons to Rest (RogueArt)
  5. Angelika Niescier-Tomeka Reid-Savannah Harris, Beyond Dragons (Intakt)
  6. Mário Costa-Cuong Vu-Benoît Delbecq-Bruno Chevillon, Chromosome (Clean Feed)
  7. Séverine Morfin, Mad Maple (Garden)
  8. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation)
  9. Ethan Philion Quartet, Gnosis (Sunnyside)
  10. Blue Cranes, My Only Secret (Jealous Butcher/Beacon Sound)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Joy, Joy (1976, Cadillac)
  2. Derek Bailey & Paul Motian, Duo in Concert (1990, Frozen Reeds)
  3. Wayne Shorter, Schizophrenia (1967, Blue Note Tone Poet)

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