The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Stephen Graham (www.marlbank.net)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, Kings Highway (Stoner Hill)
  2. Arooj Aftab-Vijay Iyer-Shahzad Ismaily, Love in Exile (Verve)
  3. Bobo Stenson Trio, Sphere (ECM)
  4. Meshell Ndegeocello, The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)
  5. BlankFor.Ms-Jason Moran-Marcus Gilmore, Refract (Red Hook)
  6. Pat Metheny, Dream Box (Modern)
  7. Eric Reed, Black, Brown, and Blue (Smoke Sessions)
  8. Dhafer Youssef, Street of Minarets (Back Beat Edition)
  9. Zoe Rahman, Colour of Sound (Manushi)
  10. Irreversible Entanglements, Protect Your Light (Impulse!)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!)
  2. Chet Baker, Blue Room: The 1979 Vara Studio Sessions in Holland (Jazz Detective)
  3. Sonny Stitt, Boppin' in Baltimore: Live at the Left Bank (1973, Jazz Detective/Elemental)

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