The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Andrey Henkin (freelance: New York Times, NPR, Stereophile, Jazzwise, WeJazz, The Brooklyn Rail; Jazz Passings)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Dave Lombardo, Rites of Percussion (Ipecac) →
  2. Susan Alcorn & Septeto Del Sur, Canto (Relative Pitch) →
  3. Alexander Hawkins Trio, Carnival Celestial (Intakt) →
  4. Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns, Weejuns (Rune Grammofon) →
  5. Peter Evans Being & Becoming, Ars Memoria (More Is More) →
  6. Sylvie Courvoisier & Cory Smythe, The Rite of Spring/Spectre D'Un Songe (Pyroclastic) →
  7. Dave Liebman, Live at Smalls (Cellar) →
  8. Satoko Fujii, Torrent: Piano Solo (Libra) →
  9. Kresten Osgood-Bob Moses-Tisziji Munoz, Spiritual Drum Kingship (Gotta Let It Out) →
  10. Ned Rothenberg, Crossings Four (Clean Feed) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Mike Osborne, Starting Fires: Live at the 100 Club 1970 (British Progressive Jazz) →
  2. Barry Altschul-David Izenson-Perry Robinson, Stop Time: Live at Prince Street 1978 (NoBusiness) →
  3. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!) →

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN