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)
- Fred Hersch, Silent, Listening (ECM) →
- Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!) →
- Ill Considered, Precipice (New Soil) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
- ØKSE, ØKSE (Backwoodz Studioz) →
- SML, Small Medium Large (International Anthem) →
- Kiki Valera, Vacilón Santiaguero (Circle 9 Music) →
- Kamasi Washington, Fearless Movement (Young) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (1941-51, Verve) →
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- The Cannonball Adderley Quintet, Live in Montreal: May 1975 (Liberation Hall) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus Takes Manhattan: The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961-1962 (New Land) →
- 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).