The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Phillip Golub, Abiding Memory (Berthold/Endectomorph Music) →
  2. Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
  3. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  4. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
  5. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
  6. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
  7. Ganavya, Daughter of a Temple (Leiter) →
  8. Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet, Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt '23) →
  9. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk) →
  10. Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri, Transylvanian Dance (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  2. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
  3. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
  4. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
  5. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →

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