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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