The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Michael J. West (DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Sullivan Fortner, Solo Game (Artwork)
  2. David Murray-Questlove-Ray Angry, Plumb (J.M.I./Outside In Music)
  3. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation)
  4. Butcher Brown, Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
  5. Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding, Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
  6. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Continuing (Pi)
  7. Miho Hazama, M_unit: Beyond Orbits (Edition)
  8. Kris Davis, Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic)
  9. Todd Sickafoose, Bear Proof (Secret Hatch)
  10. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Dynamic Maximum Tension (Nonesuch)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Dorothy Ashby, With Strings Attached (1957-65, New Land)
  2. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!)
  3. Roy Hargrove, The Love Suite: In Mahogany (1993, Blue Engine)

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