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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