The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Paul Medrano (Best of Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz, Ex Machina (Pi)
  2. Fire! Orchestra, Echoes (Rune Grammofon)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms)
  4. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation)
  5. Matt Mitchell, Oblong Aplomb (Out of Your Head)
  6. Anna Webber, Shimmer Wince (Intakt)
  7. William Hooker, Flesh and Bones (Org Music)
  8. Rodrigo Amado/The Bridge, Beyond the Margins (Trost)
  9. Matthew Shipp, The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp (Mahakala Music)
  10. Farida Amadou-Jonas Cambien-Dave Rempis, On the Blink (Aerophonic)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Dave Brubeck, Live From the Northwest, 1959 (Brubeck Editions)
  2. Kim Dae Hwan & Choi Sun Bae, Korean Fantasy (1999, NoBusiness)
  3. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!)

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN

Note: Also see the voter's Best Jazz Albums of 2023.