The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Steve Feeney (ArtsFuse, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform)
  2. Caleb Wheeler Curtis, The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  4. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  5. Thumbscrew, Wingbeats (Cuneiform)
  6. Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi)
  7. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt)
  8. Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music)
  9. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi)
  10. Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM)
  2. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance)
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  4. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)

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