The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Jason Gross (Perfect Sound Forever, Rock & Roll Globe, New York City Jazz Record)

NEW ALBUMS (unranked)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (1941-51, Verve)
  2. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Live in Montreal: May 1975 (Liberation Hall)
  4. Charles Mingus, Mingus Takes Manhattan: The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961-1962 (New Land)
  5. John Coltrane 4tet, Live in France July 27/28 1965: The Complete Concerts (Fingerpoppin)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: Longer Rara Avis list truncated at 5: dropped Mal Waldron, Reminiscent Suite (1973, BBE); Johnny Griffin, Live at Ronnie Scott's (1964, Gearbox '23); Alice Coltrane, The Great Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!); Miles Davis, Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings (Craft); McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs (1966, Blue Note).