The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Gary Chapin (Free Jazz Collective)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Tim Berne-Hank Roberts-Aurora Nealand [Oceans And], Lucid/Still (Screwgun)
  2. George Cartwright & Bruce Golden, Dilate (self-released)
  3. Ivo Perelman-Chad Fowler-Reggie Workman-Andrew Cyrille, Embracing the Unknown (Mahakala Music)
  4. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  5. Liba Villavecchia Trio + Luis Vicente, Muracik (Clean Feed)
  6. Moor Mother, The Great Bailout (Anti-)
  7. ØKSE, ØKSE (Backwoodz Studioz)
  8. Space, Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch)
  9. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret)
  10. Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet, Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt '23)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Tim Berne, Live in Someplace Nice (1984, Screwgun)
  2. George Cartwright, The Ghostly Bee (2005, Mahakala Music '23)
  3. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics)
  4. Tim Berne & Michael Formanek, Parlour Games (1991, Relative Pitch)
  5. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)

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