The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Yoshi Kato (DownBeat, San Francisco Classical Voice, San Francisco Chronicle)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  2. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
  3. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
  4. Julieta Eugenio, Stay (Cristalyn) →
  5. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
  6. The Bobby Broom Organi-Sation, Jamalot Live (Steele) →
  7. Satoko Fujii Quartet, Dog Days of Summer (Libra) →
  8. Younee, Improvisations Live in Germany (Fulminantmusic) →
  9. Christian Tamburr-Dominick Farinacci-Michael Ward-Bergeman, Triad (Ropeadope) →
  10. Morgan Guerin, Tales of the Facade (Candid) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
  2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  3. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
  4. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
  5. The Monty Alexander Trio, Montreux Alexander: Live! at the Montreux Festival (1976, MPS) →

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