The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Jim Hynes (Glide, Making a Scene!)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  2. Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music)
  3. Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani)
  4. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  5. Avishai Cohen, Ashes to Gold (ECM)
  6. Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve)
  7. Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note)
  8. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81)
  9. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  10. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)
  4. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  5. Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music)

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