The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Larry Hollis (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wayne Escoffery, Like Minds (Smoke Sessions)
  2. Mike LeDonne-Eric Alexander-Jeremy Pelt-Vincent Herring-Kenny Washington-Peter Washington, The Heavy Hitters (Cellar)
  3. Precarious Towers, Ten Stories (Shifting Paradigm)
  4. Terell Stafford, Between Two Worlds (Le Coq)
  5. George Coleman, Live at Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar)
  6. Jim Rotondi Quintet, Over Here (Criss Cross)
  7. Louis Hayes, Exactly Right! (Savant)
  8. Ron Blake, Mistaken Identity (7ten33 Productions)
  9. Constantine Alexander, Firetet (self-released)
  10. Ed Cherry, Are We There Yet? (Cellar)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!)
  2. Miles Davis Quintet, In Concert at the Olympia Paris 1957 (Fresh Sound)
  3. Basie All Stars, Live at Fabrik Vol. 1: Hamburg 1981 (Jazzline)

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DEBUT

LATIN