The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

James Hale (DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  4. Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note)
  5. Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note)
  6. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork)
  7. Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM)
  8. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi)
  9. Giovanni Guidi, A New Day (ECM)
  10. Arun Ramamurthy Trio, New Moon (Greenleaf Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy)
  2. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM)
  3. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)
  4. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  5. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)

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