The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Martin Johnson (Wall Street Journal, NPR, DownBeat)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt)
  2. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  3. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms)
  4. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform)
  5. Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi)
  6. Thumbscrew, Wingbeats (Cuneiform)
  7. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  8. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
  9. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  10. Sylvie Courvoisier, To Be Other-Wise (Intakt)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  4. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto)
  5. Miles Davis, Birth of the Blue (1958, Analogue Productions)

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