The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Alain Drouot (Downbeat, Citizen Jazz)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Modney, Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic)
  2. Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash, To March Is to Love (Cuneiform)
  3. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
  4. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk)
  5. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  6. Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt)
  7. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi)
  8. Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder (American Dreams)
  9. Jason Stein-Marilyn Crispell-Damon Smith-Adam Shead, Spi-raling Horn (Balance Point Acoustics)
  10. Dave Rempis & Tashi Dorji Duo, Gnash (Aerophonic)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  2. NRG Ensemble, Hold That Thought (1996, Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  3. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance)

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