The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Will Layman (PopMatters)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kate Gentile, Find Letter X (Pi)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms)
  3. Darius Jones, Fluxkit Vancouver (Its Suite but Sacred) (We Jazz)
  4. Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz, Ex Machina (Pi)
  5. Kris Davis, Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic)
  6. Matthew Shipp, The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp (Mahakala Music)
  7. Anna Webber, Shimmer Wince (Intakt)
  8. Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet, Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt)
  9. Michael Blake, Dance of the Mystic Bliss (P&M)
  10. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Dynamic Maximum Tension (Nonesuch)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!)
  2. Geri Allen & Kurt Rosenwinkel, A Lovesome Thing (2012, Motéma Music)
  3. Charles Mingus, At Antibes 1960 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics)

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