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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