The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023
Ballot 2023
NEW RELEASES (listed alphabetically; 5.5 points each)
- Arooj Aftab-Vijay Iyer-Shahzad Ismaily, Love in Exile (Verve) →
- Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Dynamic Maximum Tension (Nonesuch) →
- Ekiti Sound, Drum Money (Crammed Discs) →
- Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet, Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe) →
- London Brew, London Brew (Concord) →
- Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet, Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt) →
- Joshua Redman, Where Are We (Blue Note) →
- Bobby Rush, All My Love for You (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers) →
- John Scofield, Uncle John's Band (ECM) →
- Vahagn Stepanyan, A New Chapter (self-released) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!) →
VOCAL
- Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding, Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto) →
DEBUT
LATIN