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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