The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Phil Freeman (Burning Ambulance, Stereogum, The Wire, DownBeat)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Lisa Ullén, Heirloom (Fönstret)
  2. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  3. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  4. Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  5. Thembi Dunjana, God Bless iKapa. God Bless Mzantsi (AfricArise)
  6. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline)
  7. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi)
  8. Nala Sinephro, Endlessness (Warp)
  9. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  10. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  3. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive)
  4. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy)
  5. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics)

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