The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023
Past Polls Index
New Albums Rara Avis Debuts Latin Vocals
Critics
Acquaro - CartwrightCastaņeda - DrouotDryden - GuttermanHale - KaplanKato - MicallefMichie - PollettaQuinn - SzwedTamarkin - Yokoi

Ballot 2023

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Martin Johnson (Wall Street Journal, NPR, TIDAL, Bandcamp)

NEW RELEASES

  1. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms) →
  2. Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke, Lean In (Edition) →
  3. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Dynamic Maximum Tension (Nonesuch) →
  4. Ingrid Laubrock, The Last Quiet Place (Pyroclastic) →
  5. Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz, Ex Machina (Pi) →
  6. Jason Moran, From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (Yes) →
  7. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation) →
  8. Tomas Fujiwara, Pith (Out of Your Head) →
  9. Sylvie Courvoisier, Chimaera (Intakt) →
  10. Angelica Sanchez Nonet, Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!) →
  2. Dorothy Ashby, With Strings Attached (1957-65, New Land) →
  3. Geri Allen & Kurt Rosenwinkel, A Lovesome Thing (2012, Motéma Music) →

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN

 

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