The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Geoffrey Himes (JazzTimes, Paste)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Pierrick Pédron & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Pédron Rubalcaba (Gazebo)
  2. Lafayette Gilchrist, Undaunted (Morphius)
  3. Allison Miller, Rivers in Our Veins (Royal Potato Family)
  4. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Tryptych I-III (SMP '22)
  5. Rudy Royston Flatbed Buggy, Day (Greenleaf Music)
  6. Johnathan Blake, Passage (Blue Note)
  7. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Mélusine (Nonesuch)
  8. Benjamin Koppel-Scott Colley-Brian Blade, Perspective (Cowbell Music)
  9. Orrin Evans, The Red Door (Smoke Sessions)
  10. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!)
  2. Shirley Scott, Queen Talk: Live at the Left Bank (1972, Reel to Real)
  3. Ahmad Jamal, Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Jazz Detective/Elemental)

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