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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