The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Francis Davis (emeritus)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk)
  2. Thumbscrew, Wingbeats (Cuneiform)
  3. Lux Quartet, Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird)
  4. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  5. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  6. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  7. Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music)
  8. Ryan Truesdell, Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare)
  9. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi)
  10. Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto)
  3. Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music)

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