The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Chris Barton (Los Angeles Times, DownBeat)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi)
  2. Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve)
  3. SML, Small Medium Large (International Anthem)
  4. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  5. Nala Sinephro, Endlessness (Warp)
  6. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)
  7. Ben Goldberg-Todd Sickafoose-Scott Amendola, Here to There (Secret Hatch)
  8. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  9. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  10. Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  2. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)
  3. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)

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