The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Rob Hoff (WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], WETF [South Bend, IN], JazzErie)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  2. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  3. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  4. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi)
  5. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi)
  6. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  7. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform)
  8. Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note)
  9. Anna Webber, Simpletrio2000 (Intakt)
  10. Caleb Wheeler Curtis, The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  4. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective)
  5. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)

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