The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023
Ballot 2023
NEW RELEASES
- Christian McBride's New Jawn, Prime (Mack Avenue) →
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Beauty Is Enough (Origami Harvest) →
- Henry Threadgill Ensemble, The Other One (Pi) →
- Chien Chien Lu, Built in System: Live in New York (Giant Step Arts) →
- Rudy Royston Flatbed Buggy, Day (Greenleaf Music) →
- Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet, Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt) →
- James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms) →
- Ethan Philion Quartet, Gnosis (Sunnyside) →
- Claire Daly With George Garzone, VuVu for Frances (Daly Bread) →
- Freddie Bryant, Upper West Side Love Story: A Song Cycle (Tiger Turn) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Phineas Newborn Jr., A World of Piano! (1961, Craft) →
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis With Shirley Scott, Cookin' With Jaws and the Queen: The Legendary Prestige Albums (1958, Craft) →
- Booker Ervin, That's It! (1961, Candid '22) →
VOCAL
- Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter, SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree (Edition) →
DEBUT
- Anthony Hervey, Words From My Horn (Outside In Music) →
LATIN
- The Santiago Big Band & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Santiago Brooklyn Santiago (Zoho) →
