The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

J.D. Considine (DownBeat)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  2. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  3. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi)
  4. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  5. Anna Webber, Simpletrio2000 (Intakt)
  6. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  7. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt)
  8. Chris Potter-Brad Mehldau-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Eagle's Point (Edition)
  9. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi)
  10. Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  2. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  4. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic)
  5. Tim Berne & Michael Formanek, Parlour Games (1991, Relative Pitch)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT