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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