The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023

Ballot 2023

Richard Williams (The Blue Moment)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation)
  2. Sylvie Courvoisier, Chimaera (Intakt)
  3. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Dynamic Maximum Tension (Nonesuch)
  4. Fire! Orchestra, Echoes (Rune Grammofon)
  5. Vilhelm Bromander, In This Forever Unfolding Moment (Thanatos)
  6. Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz, Ex Machina (Pi)
  7. PJEV-Kit Downes-Hayden Chisholm, Medna Roso (Red Hook)
  8. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Continuing (Pi)
  9. Sebastian Rochford & Kit Downes, A Short Diary (ECM)
  10. Irreversible Entanglements, Protect Your Light (Impulse!)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse!)
  2. Mike Osborne, Starting Fires: Live at the 100 Club 1970 (British Progressive Jazz)
  3. Miles Davis Quintet, In Concert at the Olympia Paris 1957 (Fresh Sound)

VOCAL

DEBUT

LATIN

Note: Debut vote for Jonathan Coe & Artchipel Orchestra, Suspended Moment (British Progressive Jazz) disqualified.