The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Richard B. Kamins (Step Tempest, WESU-FM [Middletown CT])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, The Gennett Suite (Patois) →
  2. Anthony Branker & Imagine, What Place Can Be for Us? A Suite in Ten Movements (Origin) →
  3. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms) →
  4. Rudy Royston Flatbed Buggy, Day (Greenleaf Music) →
  5. Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble, Home Is Here (Tapestry) →
  6. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Continuing (Pi) →
  7. Jason Moran, From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (Yes) →
  8. Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke, Lean In (Edition) →
  9. Magos Herrera, Aire (Sunnyside) →
  10. Edward Simon, Femininas: Songs of Latin American Women (ArtistShare) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Ahmad Jamal, Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968 (Jazz Detective/Elemental) →
  2. Luis Russell, At the Swing Cats Ball: Newly Discovered Recordings From the Closet, Volume 1 1938-1940 (Dot Time Legends) →
  3. Dorothy Ashby, With Strings Attached (1957-65, New Land) →

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