The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Paul Acquaro (Free Jazz Collective, Jazz Podium)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  2. Space, Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch)
  3. Sakina Abdou-Toma Gouband-Marta Warelis, Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch)
  4. The Attic & Eve Risser, La Grande Crue (NoBusiness)
  5. Joachim Kühn French Trio, The Way (ACT Music)
  6. Jon Irabagon, I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues: Volume 3 Part 2: Exuberant Scars (Irabbagast)
  7. Ivo Perelman's São Paulo Creative 4, Supernova (self-released)
  8. Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash, To March Is to Love (Cuneiform)
  9. Peter Evans, Extra (We Jazz)
  10. Gordon Grdina & Christian Lillinger, Duo Work (Attaboygirl)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  2. Arthur Blythe Quartet, Live From Studio Rivbea: July 6, 1976 (NoBusiness)
  3. Soft Machine, Høvikkoden 1971 (Cuneiform)
  4. Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Live From Studio Rivbea: July 12, 1975 [Rivbea Live! Series, Volume 1] (NoBusiness)
  5. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive)

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