The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballot 2024
NEW ALBUMS
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
- Bill Laurance & Michael League, Keeping Company (ACT Music) →
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
- Pat Metheny, MoonDial (BMG) →
- Fred Hersch, Silent, Listening (ECM) →
- Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!) →
- Joel Lyssarides & Georgios Prokopiou, Arcs & Rivers (ACT Music) →
- Nala Sinephro, Endlessness (Warp) →
- Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) →
- Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Joe Henderson, Power to the People (1969, Craft/Jazz Dispensary) →
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
- Bobby Hutcherson, Medina (1969, Blue Note Tone Poet) →
VOCAL
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
- Jo Harrop, The Path of a Tear (Lateralize) →
- Michael Mayo, Fly (Mack Avenue) →
- Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens) →
LATIN
- Bruno Berle, No Reino Dos Afetos 2 (Psychic Hotline) →
- Vinicius Cantuaria, Psychedelic Rio (Sunnyside) →
- Dora Morelenbaum, Pique (Mr Bongo) →
DEBUT
- Finn Rees, Dawn Is a Melody (Mr Bongo) →
- Zacchae'us Paul, Jazz Money (Candid) →
- Dora Morelenbaum, Pique (Mr Bongo) →