The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Thomas Conrad (Stereophile, All About Jazz)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Ryan Truesdell, Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare)
  2. Avishai Cohen, Ashes to Gold (ECM)
  3. Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note)
  4. Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music)
  5. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  6. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  7. Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note)
  8. Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Centennial: The Music of Thad Jones: Live at the Village Vanguard (BCM+D)
  9. Giovanni Guidi, A New Day (ECM)
  10. Jim Snidero, For All We Know (Savant)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  3. Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM)
  4. Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music)
  5. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto)

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