The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Ludwig vanTrikt (Cadence)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake, Eternal River (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  2. Billy Mohler, Ultraviolet (Contagious Music)
  3. Chien Chien Lu, Built in System: Live in New York (Giant Step Arts)
  4. Rudy Royston Flatbed Buggy, Day (Greenleaf Music)
  5. Yuhan Su, Liberated Gesture (Sunnyside)
  6. Kaisa's Machine, Taking Shape (Greenleaf Music)
  7. Rich Halley Quartet, Fire Within (Pine Eagle)
  8. Ayanda Sikade, Umakhulu (Afrosynth '22)
  9. Tomas Fujiwara, Pith (Out of Your Head)
  10. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sun Ra and His Arkestra, Jazz in Silhouette (Expanded Edition) (1958, Cosmic Myth)
  2. The Jazz Doctors, Intensive Care: Prescriptions Filled [The Billy Bang Quartet Sessions 1983/1984] (Cadillac)
  3. Byard Lancaster, It's Not Up to Us (1968, Superior Viaduct)

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