The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023
The Critics
- Paul Acquaro: Free Jazz Collective, Jazzpodium
- David R. Adler: freelance
- Scott Albin: Amazon.com
- Shannon Ali (Shannon J. Effinger): The Guardian UK, The Washington Post, W Magazine, The New York Times, Pitchfork, Jazziz, NPR Music
- Larry Appelbaum: DownBeat, WPFW-FM
- Hrayr Attarian: Jazziz, All About Jazz
- Chris Barton: Los Angeles Times, DownBeat
- Joe Bebco: The Syncopated Times
- Bill Beuttler: Boston Globe, Emerson College, DownBeat
- Dan Bilawsky: All About Jazz, Dark Blue Notes
- Larry Birnbaum: Stereophile
- Larry Blumenfeld: Wall Street Journal, Chamber Music America, Jazziz
- Philip Booth: Jazziz, Jazzlands
- Mike Borella: Avant Music News
- Shaun Brady: Philadelphia Inquirer, WRTI, Tidal
- Stuart Broomer: Free Jazz Collective, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, The Whole Note
- Bill Brownlee: Plastic Sax, KCUR
- Dan Buskirk: WPRB [Princeton], Fun2Know Podcast
- Dave Cantor: VPM News
- Katchie Cartwright: All Abourt Jazz
- Esteban Arizpe Castaņeda: El Intruso
- Jeff Cebulski: Chicago Jazz
- John Chacona: All About Jazz, Postgenre Media, Let's Call This
- Gary Chapin: Free Jazz Collective
- Nate Chinen: WRTI, NPR Music, The Gig
- Brad Cohan: TIDAL, Bandcamp Daily
- Troy Collins: Point of Departure
- Thomas Conrad: Stereophile, New York City Jazz Record
- J.D. Considine: DownBeat
- John Corbett: Jazz Podium, Corbett vs. Dempsey
- Mark Corroto: All About Jazz
- Michael Coyle: WRCU [Colgate University]
- David Cristol: Jazz Magazine [Fr], Citizen Jazz [Fr], Jazz.pt [Portugal], Free Jazz Collective
- Raul da Gama: Global Jazz Media, That Canadian Magazine, Latin Jazz Network, JazzdaGama, The WholeNote, Hot House Jazz
- Francis Davis: Poll founder
- Anthony Dean-Harris: KRTU [San Antonio], DownBeat
- Steve Dollar: freelance
- Laurence Donohue-Greene: The New York City Jazz Record
- Troy Dostert: All About Jazz, Free Jazz Collective
- Alain Drouot: Downbeat, Citizen Jazz
- Ken Dryden: New York City Jazz Record, Hot House, Timeless Jazz [WUTC-FM]
- Chuck Eddy: Eliminated for Reasons of Space, Napster
- John Ephland: DownBeat, All About Jazz
- Lee Rice Epstein: Free Jazz Collective
- Steve Feeney: Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram, ArtsFuse
- Gary Finney: WQLN NPR [Eric, PA]
- Phil Freeman: Burning Ambulance, Stereogum, The Wire, DownBeat
- Filipe Freitas: JazzTrail
- Pat Frisco: WHFR-FM [Dearborn, MI]
- Jon Garelick: Boston Globe, Arts Fuse, Jazziz, DownBeat
- Ana Gavrilovska: Uncut, Maggot Brain, Aquarium Drunkard
- Richard Gehr: Relix
- Andrew Gilbert: freelance: San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area News Group, KQED Arts
- Kurt Gottschalk: WKCR, The Wire, New York City Jazz Record, DownBeat
- David A. Graham: The Atlantic
- Stephen Graham: www.marlbank.net
- Ludovico Granvassu: All About Jazz/All About Jazz Italia, Radio Free Brooklyn: Mondo Jazz
- George Grella: The Brooklyn Rail, New York City Jazz Record, The Wire, Red Hook Star-Review, Financial Times
- Jason Gross: Perfect Sound Forever
- Scott Gutterman: The Brooklyn Rail
- James Hale: DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com
- Eyal Hareuveni: Free Jazz Blog, Salt Peanuts
- Chris Heim: KMUW-FM [Wichita, KS]
- Tad Hendrickson: freelance
- Andrey Henkin: freelance: New York Times, NPR, Stereophile, Jazzwise, WeJazz, The Brooklyn Rail; Jazz Passings
- Geoffrey Himes: JazzTimes, Paste
- Rob Hoff: WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], WETF [South Bend, IN], JazzErie, JJA
- Larry Hollis: Cadence
- Mark Holston: Latino, Jazziz
- Tom Hull: tomhull.com
- Peter Hum: The Ottawa Citizen
- Jim Hynes: Glide, Making a Scene!
- Robert Iannapollo: New York City Jazz Record, ARSC Journal, Cadence
- Willard Jenkins: The Independent Ear, DownBeat, DC Jazz Festival, Ain't But a Few of Us
- Martin Johnson: Wall Street Journal, NPR, TIDAL, Bandcamp
- Sanford Josephson: Jersey Jazz Magazine
- Ammar Kalia: The Guardian and Observer
- Richard B. Kamins: Step Tempest, WESU-FM [Middletown CT]
- George Kanzler: Hot House, New York City Jazz Record
- Fred Kaplan: Slate, Tracking Angle
- Yoshi Kato: DownBeat, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Classical Voice
- Glenn Kenny: freelance: New York Times, RogerEbert.com; Some Came Running
- James Koblin: The Necessary Blues
- Elzy Kolb: freelance
- Stuart Kremsky: Mr. Stu's Record Room
- David Kunian: New Orleans Jazz Museum, WWOZ-FM [New Orleans], Offbeat, DownBeat
- Art Lange: freelance
- Josh Langhoff: Wrigley Field organist
- Will Layman: PopMatters
- Devin Leonard: Bloomberg Businessweek
- Lance Liddle: Bebop Spoken Here
- Mark Lomanno: The Rhythm of Study
- Suzanne Lorge: DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record
- Brad Luen: Semipop Life
- Phillip Lutz: DownBeat
- Jim Macnie: DownBeat, Lament for a Straight Line
- Howard Mandel: Jazz Journalists Association, DownBeat, The Wire, Mandel's Media Diet
- Peter Margasak: The Wire, DownBeat, Chamber Music, Bandcamp Daily, Nowhere Street
- Paul Medrano: Best of Jazz
- Ken Micallef: Stereophile, DownBeat, JazzTimes
- Allen Michie: The Arts Fuse
- Milo Miles: The Arts Fuse, Miles to Go
- Bill Milkowski: DownBeat, Guitar Player, Absolute Sound, Substack
- Roz Milner: Milner on Music
- Ralph A. Miriello: Notes on Jazz
- Rick Mitchell: Jazz in the New Millennium [book/radio program]
- Chris Monsen: Musikkmagasinet [Klassekampen], Jazznytt, Substack
- John Frederick Moore: Jazziz
- Allen Morrison: DownBeat, TIDAL
- Ivana Ng: DownBeat
- Stuart Nicholson: Jazzwise
- Fotis Nikolakopoulos: Free Jazz Collective
- Tim Niland: freelance
- Ysi Ortega: Stalker 21, El Intruso
- Dan Ouellette: DownBeat, Stereophile, QWEST.TV, Jazz & Beyond Intel, The Landfill Chronicles
- Phil Overeem: Living to Listen
- Annie Parnell: Virginia's Home for Public Media [NPR, Richmond, VA]
- Terry Perkins: DownBeat
- Sergio Piccirilli: El Intruso
- Dan Polletta: WCLV Cleveland
- Peter Quinn: Jazzwise, The Arts Desk
- Derk Richardson: The Absolute Sound, KPFA 94.1 FM [Berkeley]
- Britt Robson: Bandcamp, Minnpost
- Lloyd Sachs: Lloyd Sachs: Writing About Popular Culture
- Bret Saunders: Denver Post, KBCO-FM [Denver]
- Rich Scheinin: SFJAZZ
- Sarah Schmidt: Jazz Director, WRFL-FM [Lexington, KY]
- Gene Seymour: The Nation, CNN.com
- Mike Shanley: Shanley on Music, New York City Jazz Record
- John Sharpe: The New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, All About Jazz
- Adam Shatz: London Review of Books
- Rob Shepherd: PostGenre Media
- Hank Shteamer
- Slim: WRCU: Slim's Spins and The Slim & Him Show
- Stewart Smith: The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus
- Sammy Stein: Readers Digest, Something Else, Free Jazz Collective, Platinum Mind; six books, most recent: Fabulous Female Musicians
- Mark Stryker: Jazz From Detroit [University of Michigan Press]
- Mark Sullivan: All About Jazz, Minor 7th: Acoustic Guitar Music Reviews
- Dave Sumner: Bandcamp, Bird Is the Worm
- John Szwed: Wire
- Jeff Tamarkin: Relix, TIDAL, Mojo
- Derek Taylor: Dusted
- Neil Tesser: Jazziz, KSDS-FM
- Michael Toland: The Big Takeover, The Austin Chronicle
- Michael Ullman: Arts Fuse, Fanfare
- Ludwig vanTrikt: Cadence
- George Varga: San Diego Union-Tribune and Tribune News Service
- Seth Colter Walls: New York Times
- Ken Waxman: Jazz Word
- Bob Weinberg: Jazziz
- Jason Weiss: The Wire, Le Ventre et l'Oreille
- Ken Weiss: Cadence, Jazz Inside
- Michael J. West: DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post
- Richard Williams: The Blue Moment
- Jerome Wilson: All About Jazz, The Outer View (Radio Fairfax)
- Josef Woodard: DownBeat, Jazziz, Los Angeles Times, Santa Barbara Independent, All About Jazz, JoeWoodard.com
- Ron Wynn: The Nashville Scene, The Tennessee Tribune, The Bluegrass Solution
- Scott Yanow: DownBeat, Jazziz, New York City Jazz Record, Los Angeles Jazz Scene, Syncopated Times, The Jazz Rag
- Kazue Yokoi: JazzTokyo