The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Stewart Smith (The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Darius Jones, Fluxkit Vancouver (Its Suite but Sacred) (We Jazz)
  2. Ingrid Laubrock, Monochromes (Intakt)
  3. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation)
  4. Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz, Ex Machina (Pi)
  5. Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)) (International Anthem)
  6. James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms)
  7. Henry Threadgill Ensemble, The Other One (Pi)
  8. Mendoza Hoff Revels, Echolocation (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Joe McPhee-Mette Rasmussen-Dennis Tyfus, Oblique Strategies (Black Truffle)
  10. Keith & Julie Tippett, Couple in Spirit/Sound on Stone (Discus Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Milford Graves With Arthur Doyle & Hugh Glover, Children of the Forest (1976, Black Editions Archive)
  2. Abdul Wadud, By Myself: Solo Cello (1977, Gotta Groove)
  3. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!)

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