The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Nate Chinen (WRTI, NPR Music, The Gig)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  2. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note)
  3. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  4. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
  5. Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy, Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound New Talent)
  6. Jihye Lee Orchestra, Infinite Connections (Motéma Music)
  7. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  8. Matt Mitchell, Illimitable (Obliquity)
  9. Nala Sinephro, Endlessness (Warp)
  10. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  3. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  4. Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve)
  5. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM)

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