The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballot 2024
David Kunian (Offbeat, New Orleans Jazz Museum, WWOZ-FM [New Orleans])
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Byron Asher's Skrontch Music, Lord, When You Send the Rain (Sinking City) →
- Mahmoud Chouki, Caravan: From Marrakech to New Orleans (Gallatin Street) →
- Charlie Halloran and the Tropicales, Jump Up (Nu-Tone) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
- Planet D Nonet, Echoes of Harlem: A Salute to Duke Ellington Vol. 2 (Eastlawn) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
- Sun Ra Arkestra [Under the Direction of Marshall Allen], Lights on a Satellite (In+Out) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse! '23) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly Trio, Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings (Resonance '23) →
- Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
- King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
VOCAL
- Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
- Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →
LATIN
DEBUT
Note: Debut vote for Gabrielle Cavassa disqualified because album is credited to Joshua Redman, Where Are We (Blue Note '23), although it could be viewed as Cavassa's debut.