The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Geoffrey Himes (Paste, Chamber Music)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Owl Song (Nonesuch '23)
  3. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi)
  4. Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Hamilton De Holanda, Collab (Sony Music Brazil)
  5. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
  6. Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note)
  7. Ben Wendel, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition)
  8. Lux Quartet, Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird)
  9. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  10. Micah Thomas, Mountains (Artwork)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto)
  3. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)
  4. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance)
  5. Joni Mitchell, Archives Volume 4: The Asylum Years (1976-1980) (Rhino)

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