The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Phillip Lutz (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Andy Emler MegaOctet, No Rush! (La Buissonne)
  2. Julian Lage, The Layers (Blue Note)
  3. Arooj Aftab-Vijay Iyer-Shahzad Ismaily, Love in Exile (Verve)
  4. Bill Frisell, Four (Blue Note '22)
  5. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Continuing (Pi)
  6. Meshell Ndegeocello, The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)
  7. Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano, Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian (ECM '22)
  8. Mark Dresser, Times of Change (Pyroclastic)
  9. Kassa Overall, Animals (Warp)
  10. Buster Williams, Unalome (Smoke Sessions)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Jimi Hendrix Experience, Los Angeles Forum, April 26, 1969 (Legacy/Experience Hendrix '22)
  2. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!)
  3. Nina Simone, You've Got to Learn (1966, Verve)

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