The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Lee Rice Epstein (Free Jazz Collective, But does it swing?)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  2. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk)
  4. Jason Stein-Marilyn Crispell-Damon Smith-Adam Shead, Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics)
  5. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret)
  6. Space, Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch)
  7. Matt Mitchell, Illimitable (Obliquity)
  8. Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House)
  9. John Zorn, New Masada Quartet, Volume 3: Live at Roulette (Tzadik)
  10. Weird of Mouth [Mette Rasmussen-Craig Taborn-Ches Smith], Weird of Mouth (Otherly Love)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto)
  2. Tony Oxley, Angular Apron (1992, Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  3. Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?, The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz)
  4. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  5. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective)

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