The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Albums List: Vocal
This page offers an alphabetically sorted list of albums that have
received one or more votes in a given category. The categories are:
- Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve)
- Cyrille Aimée, Ŕ Fleur De Peau (Whirlwind)
- Alyssa Allgood, From Here (Next)
- Gino Amato, Latin Crossroads (Ovation)
- Roxana Amed, Becoming Human (Sony Music Latin)
- Daymé Arocena, Alkemi (Brownswood)
- Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside)
- Laila Biali, Wintersongs (self-released)
- Andrew Bird Trio, Sunday Morning Put-On (Loma Vista)
- Bruna Black & John Finbury, Vă Revelaçăo (Green Flash)
- Silvia Bolognesi-Dudú Kouate-Griffin Rodriguez, Timing Birds (Astral Spirits)
- Betty Bryant, Lotta Livin' (Bry-Mar Music)
- Chloé Cailleton & Nathalie Darche, Quart d'Heure Américain: Pour vous remercier de ne pas dédaigner ce petit rien (Pépin & Plume)
- Annie Chen, Guardians (JZ Music)
- Johnny Coley, Mister Sweet Whisper (Mississippi)
- Julia Danielle, Julia Danielle (Shifting Paradigm)
- Jacqui Dankworth, Windmills (Perdido)
- Christie Dashiell, Journey in Black (Christie '23)
- KJ Denhert, The Evening News (Mother Cyclone)
- Natalie Douglas, Back to the Garden (Club 44)
- Lara Eidi, Sun (self-released)
- Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder (American Dreams)
- Eliane Elias, Time and Again (Candid)
- Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition)
- Kurt Elling, Wildflowers Vol. 2 (Edition)
- Estonian Voices, Kallimale (Sheikid)
- Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani)
- Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly, MESTIZX (International Anthem)
- Robert Finley, Black Bayou (Easy Eye Sound '23)
- Mabe Fratti, Sentir Que No Sabes (Tin Angel/Unheard of Hope)
- Amy Gadiaga, All Black Everything (Jazz Re:Freshed)
- Ganavya, Like the Sky I've Been Too Quiet (Native Rebel)
- Ganavya, Daughter of a Temple (Leiter)
- Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
- Renaud Garcia-Fons, Blue Maqam (L'Autre Distribution)
- Hilary Gardner, On the Trail With the Lonesome Pines (Anzic)
- Vanisha Gould, She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth (Cellar Live)
- Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy, Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Caity Gyorgy, Hello! How Are You? (La Reserve)
- Barbara Hannigan, Hannigan Sings Zorn, Volume One (Tzadik)
- Iris Harley, Last Breath (self-released)
- Jo Harrop, The Path of a Tear (Lateralize)
- Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt)
- Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband, Turnchest (Particular)
- Sylvanie Hélary & Orchestre Incandescent, Rare Birds (Yolk)
- Lauren Henderson, Sombras (Brontosaurus)
- Robin Holcomb, One Way or Another, Vol. 2 (Westerlies)
- John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband, Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic)
- Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy)
- Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, Live in London (Alligator '23)
- Javon Jackson & Nikki Giovanni, Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies (Solid Jackson/Palmetto)
- Laird Jackson, Life (self-released)
- Al Jarreau, Wow! Live at the Childe Harold (1976, Resonance)
- Norah Jones, Visions (Blue Note)
- Alvina Jöz, Jöz (Cinemo '23)
- Julie Kelly, Freedom Jazz Dance (Laurelwood)
- Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, New Monuments (We Jazz)
- B.B. King, In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (Deep Digs/Elemental Music)
- Abena Koomson-Davis, Where Is Love (WJ3)
- Laufey, Bewitched (AWAL '23)
- Allegra Levy, Out of the Question (SteepleChase)
- The London Experimental Ensemble With Richard Thompson, Wesley Stace, Sivert Hayem, Marissa Nadler and Gina Fergione, Child Ballads: The Final Six (Don Giovanni '23)
- K. Curtis Lyle-George Sams-Adi Du Dharma Joshua Weinstein-Damon Smith-Ra Kalaam Bob Moses-Henry Claude, 29 Birds You Never Heard (Balance Point Acoustics)
- Robbie Madison, Live at Sambuca (Madison Productions)
- Taj Mahal, Savoy (Stony Plain '23)
- The Taj Mahal Sextet, Swingin' Live at the Church in Tulsa (Lightning Rod)
- Claire Martin, Almost in Your Arms (Stunt)
- Michael Mayo, Fly (Mack Avenue)
- Zara McFarlane, Sweet Whispers: Celebrating Sarah Vaughan (Universal)
- Joe McPhee & Ken Vandermark, Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
- Lyia Meta, Next (self-released)
- Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko, Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE)
- Moor Mother, The Great Bailout (Anti-)
- Fred Moten-Brandon López-Gerald Cleaver, The Blacksmiths, the Flowers (Reading Group)
- Youn Sun Nah, Elles (Warner Bros.)
- Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord)
- Jacqui Naylor, Treasures of the Heart (Ruby Star)
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)
- Diana Panton, Soft Winds and Roses (Sono)
- William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity)
- Rita Payés, De Camino al Camino (Sony Espańa)
- Clarence Penn, Behind the Voice (Origin)
- Ivo Perelman-Fay Victor-Jim Morris-Ramon Lopez, Messa Di Voce (Mahakala Music)
- Madeleine Peyroux, Let's Walk (Just One/Thirty Tigers)
- Queen Esther, Things Are Looking Up (EL)
- Rita Ray, Live in Concert (Funk Embassy)
- Reut Regev's R*Time, It's Now: R*Time Plays Doug Hammond (ESP-Disk)
- Lisa Rich, As Long as You're Living (Tritone)
- Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, Quiet in a World Full of Noise (Merge)
- Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation '23)
- Adonis Rose Trio + One, For All We Know (Storyville)
- Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time)
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Melusine (Nonesuch '23)
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve)
- Myles Sanko, Let It Unfold (213 Music)
- Melvis Santa, Jazz Orishas (Distro)
- Sara Serpa & André Matos, Night Birds (Robalo Music '23)
- Sara Serpa, Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia)
- Simona Severini-Daniele Richiedei-Giulio Corini, Fedra (Parco Della Musica)
- Ben Sidran, Rainmaker (Bonsai)
- Bria Skonberg, What It Means (Cellar Live)
- Luciana Souza, Twenty-Four Short Musical Episodes (Sunnyside)
- Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Swing Forever (Ovation)
- Becca Stevens, Maple to Paper (GroundUP Music)
- Milton Suggs, Pure Intention (Imani)
- Tierney Sutton and San Gabriel 7, Good People (JRL-SGS)
- Sweet Meg, Blues Than Blue (Turtle Bay)
- Veronica Swift, Veronica Swift (Mack Avenue '23)
- Andromeda Turre, From the Earth (Outside In Music)
- Tyla, Tyla (Epic)
- April Varner, April (Cellar Music)
- Angela Verbrugge, Somewhere (OA2)
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms)
- Cory Weeds Meets Champian Fulton, Every Now and Then: Live at OCL Studios (Cellar Music)
- Lucy Wijnands & John Di Martino, Call Me Irresponsible: The Songs of Jimmy Van Heusen (Night Is Alive '23)
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note)
- Cole Williams, How We Care for Humanity (Four Corner)
- Norma Winstone, Wheeler With Words (AMM)
- Norma Winstone & Kit Downes, Outpost of Dreams (ECM)
- Andrea Wolper, Wanderlust (Moonflower Music)
- Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens)
- Alice Zawadzki-Fred Thomas-Misha Mullov-Abbado, Za Górami (ECM)
- John Zorn & Jesse Harris [Petra Haden], Love Songs Live (Tzadik)
Album count: 123.