The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Jim Macnie (DownBeat, Lament for a Straight Line)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation) →
  2. Micah Thomas, Reveal (Artwork) →
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, Beauty Is Enough (Origami Harvest) →
  4. Sam Newsome & Jean-Michel Pilc, Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged (Some New Music) →
  5. Joëlle Léandre-Craig Taborn-Mat Maneri, hEARoes (RogueArt) →
  6. Tim Berne-Hank Roberts-Aurora Nealand, Oceans And (Intakt) →
  7. Irreversible Entanglements, Protect Your Light (Impulse!) →
  8. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)) (International Anthem) →
  9. Loren Stillman, Time and Again (Sunnyside) →
  10. Michael Blake, Dance of the Mystic Bliss (P&M) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Wayne Horvitz-Butch Morris-Bobby Previte Trio, Live Forever, Vol. 2: NYC, Leverkusen 1988-1989 (self-released) →
  2. Art Ensemble of Chicago, Les Stances à Sophie (1970, Play Loud!) →
  3. Abdul Wadud, By Myself: Solo Cello (1977, Gotta Groove) →

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