The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballot 2024
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
- T.K. Blue, Planet Bluu (JAJA) →
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81) →
- Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
- Brian Lynch, 7x7by7 (Holistic MusicWorks) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Jack Walrath, Live at Smalls (Cellar Music) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) →
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Sara Serpa, Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) →
LATIN
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
DEBUT
- Lawrence Fields, To the Surface (Rhythm 'N' Flow) →
- Willy Rodriguez, Seeing Sounds (Coucs) →
- April Varner, April (Cellar Music) →