The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Bill Brownlee (Plastic Sax)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Sunny Five [Tim Berne-David Torn-Ches Smith-Devin Hoff-Marc Ducret], Candid (Intakt)
  2. Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt)
  3. Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note)
  4. Tord Gustavsen Trio, Seeing (ECM)
  5. Tomeka Reid-Isadora Edwards-Elisabeth Coudoux, Reid/Edwards/Coudoux (Relative Pitch)
  6. Fred Hersch, Silent, Listening (ECM)
  7. Joe Sanders, Parallels (Whirlwind)
  8. Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, New Monuments (We Jazz)
  9. أحمد [Ahmed], Wood Blues (Astral Spirits)
  10. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)

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. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive)
  4. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy)
  5. Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (1941-51, Verve)

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