The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

James Koblin (The Necessary Blues, WVKR [Vassar College])

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  2. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret)
  3. David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic)
  4. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform)
  5. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note)
  6. Matt Mitchell, Illimitable (Obliquity)
  7. Anna Webber, Simpletrio2000 (Intakt)
  8. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
  9. AALY Trio [Mats Gustafsson-Peter Janson-Kjell Nordeson], Sustain (Silkheart)
  10. Carlos Bica, 11:11 (Clean Feed)

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. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics)
  4. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  5. Tim Berne, Live in Someplace Nice (1984, Screwgun)

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