The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Michael Coyle (WRCU [Colgate University])

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse)
  2. Jon Batiste, Beethoven Blues [Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1] (Verve/Interscope)
  3. Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note)
  4. Thomas Heberer-Joe Fonda-Joe Hertenstein, Remedy II (Fundacja Słuchaj '23)
  5. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  6. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  7. Caleb Wheeler Curtis, The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani)
  8. Alex LoRe, Motivity (Weirdear)
  9. Michael Wollny & Joachim Kühn, Duo (ACT Music)
  10. Lynne Arriale Trio, Being Human (Challenge)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  2. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance)
  3. James P. Johnson, World Broadcast Recordings (1944, Solo Art)
  4. Charles Mingus, Mingus Takes Manhattan: The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961-1962 (New Land)
  5. Don Byas, Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic '23)

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