Ballots 2024 [4]

The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Past Polls Index Critics

Ballot 2024

Will Hermes (New Music + Old Music, Rolling Stone, NPR, New York Times, Pitchfork, Uncut [UK])

NEW ALBUMS

Nala Sinephro, Endlessness (Warp) →
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly, MESTIZX (International Anthem) →
Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
SML, Small Medium Large (International Anthem) →
Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
Ezra Collective, Dance, No One's Watching (Partisan) →
Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) →
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
John Abercrombie-Dave Holland-Jack DeJohnette, Gateway (1975, ECM) →
Joe Henderson, Power to the People (1969, Craft/Jazz Dispensary) →
Margo Guryan, Words and Music (1957-68, Numero Group) →
Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 (Light in the Attic) →

VOCAL

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly, MESTIZX (International Anthem) →
Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy, Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound New Talent) →

LATIN

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly, MESTIZX (International Anthem) →
Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →

DEBUT

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly, MESTIZX (International Anthem) →
Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy, Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound New Talent) →
Vanisha Gould, She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth (Cellar Live) →