The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballots 2024 [6]
Josh Langhoff (Wrigley Field organist)
NEW ALBUMS
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
- Susie Ibarra-Jeffrey Zeigler-Graham Reynolds, Insectum (Golden Hornet) →
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
- أحمد [Ahmed], Wood Blues (Astral Spirits) →
- Kenny Garrett & Svoy, Who Killed AI? (Mack Avenue) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) →
- Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
LATIN
DEBUT
Martin Laurentius (Jazz Thing)
NEW ALBUMS
- Peter Evans, Extra (We Jazz) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Tamara Lukasheva & INSO Lviv Orchestra, Anima (Tangible Music) →
- Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM) →
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
- Florian Weber, Imaginary Cycle (ECM) →
- Tobias Hoffmann Trio, Start/Stop (Klaeng) →
- Hildegunn Øiseth, Garden on the Roof (Clap Your Hands) →
- Simon Oslender-Steve Gadd-Will Lee, All That Matters (Leopard/Broken Silence) →
- Neon Dilemma [Elias Stemeseder-Robert Landfermann-Leif Berger], Neon Dilemma (Klaeng) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- Ella Fitzgerald & the Tommy Flanagan Trio, Live at the Wiener Konzerthaus, 1969 (ORF) →
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- Janel Leppin Ensemble Volcanic Ash, To March Is to Love (Cuneiform) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
- Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
- Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Miles Davis, Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings (Craft) →
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- Kurt Rosenwinkel, The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (Heartcore) →
- Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Michael Mayo, Fly (Mack Avenue) →
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
LATIN
- Pete Rodriguez, I'm Pete Rodriguez, Volume 1 (Sunnyside) →
DEBUT
Devin Leonard (Bloomberg Businessweek)
NEW ALBUMS
- Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
- Noah Preminger & Rob Garcia [Dead Composers Club], Hildegard Project: The Music of Hildegard Von Bingen (Connection Works) →
- Brad Mehldau, Après Fauré (Nonesuch) →
- Simon Moullier, Elements of Light (Candid) →
- M.T.B. [Brad Mehldau-Mark Turner-Peter Bernstein], Solid Jackson (Criss Cross Jazz) →
- Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note) →
- Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →
- Ben Wendel, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition) →
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Kurt Rosenwinkel, The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (Heartcore) →
- Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS
- Snorre Kirk, What a Day! (Stunt) →
- David Weiss Sextet, Auteur (Origin) →
- Roger Kellaway, Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) →
- Warren Wolf, History of the Vibraphone (Cellar Music) →
- Ken Peplowski, Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Music) →
- Gerald Cannon, Live at Dizzy's Club: The Music of Elvin & McCoy (Woodneck) →
- Tim Armacost Chordless Quintet, Something About Believing (TMA) →
- Ricky Alexander, Just Found Joy (Turtle Bay) →
- Brian Landrus, Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto) →
- Ben Wolfe, The Understated (Resident Arts) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Terry Gibbs Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959 (Whaling City Sound) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
- Oscar Peterson, City Lights: Live in Munich 1994 (Mack Avenue) →
- Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
- Louis Stewart & Jim Hall, The Dublin Concert (1982, Livia) →
VOCAL
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
- Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
- Betty Bryant, Lotta Livin' (Bry-Mar Music) →
LATIN
- Antonio Adolfo, Love Cole Porter (AAM Music) →
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
- Enrico Granafel, It's Hard to Say Goodbye (CAP) →
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →
- Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Geoffrey Keezer, Live at Birdland (MarKeez) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
- Arun Ramamurthy Trio, New Moon (Greenleaf Music) →
- Ben Wendel, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
- Michel Petrucciani Trio, Jazz Club Montmartre - CPH 1988 (Storyville) →
- Kurt Rosenwinkel, The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (Heartcore) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Julia Danielle, Julia Danielle (Shifting Paradigm) →
- Sara Serpa, Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) →
- Andromeda Turre, From the Earth (Outside In Music) →
LATIN
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
- Arnaud Dolmen & Leonardo Montana, LéNo (Quai Son) →
- David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) →
DEBUT
- Altus, Mythos (Biophilia) →
- John Alvey, Loft Glow (Jazz Music City) →
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
Suzanne Lorge (DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record)
NEW ALBUMS
- Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, Remembrance (Thirty Tigers) →
- Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
- Maria Schneider Orchestra, Decades (1992-2020, ArtistShare) →
- Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →
- Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
- Pat Metheny, MoonDial (BMG) →
- Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note) →
- The Bad Plus, Complex Emotions (Mack Avenue) →
- Fred Hersch, Silent, Listening (ECM) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Paco de Lucia & Pepe de Lucia, Pepito y Paquito (1959-60, BMG) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music) →
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
VOCAL
- Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
- Youn Sun Nah, Elles (Warner Bros.) →
- Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition) →
- Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
LATIN
- Eliane Elias, Time and Again (Candid) →
- Chucho Valdés & Royal Quartet, Cuba and Beyond (InterCat Music Group) →
DEBUT
- April Varner, April (Cellar Music) →
NEW ALBUMS
- Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband, Turnchest (Particular) →
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
- Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk) →
- The Core, Roots (Moserobie) →
- Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
- Emmeluth's Amoeba, Nonsense (Moserobie) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
VOCAL
- Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband, Turnchest (Particular) →
LATIN
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
DEBUT
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Bill Charlap Trio, And Then Again (Blue Note) →
- Etienne Charles, Creole Orchestra (Culture Shock) →
- Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Aaron Parks, Little Big III (Blue Note) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Ryan Truesdell, Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare) →
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- John Abercrombie-Dave Holland-Jack DeJohnette, Gateway (1975, ECM) →
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- Bill Evans, Tales: Live in Copenhagen (1964) (Elemental Music '23) →
- Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters (1957, Blue Note) →
- Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Cyrille Aimée, À Fleur De Peau (Whirlwind) →
- Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition) →
- Sara Serpa, Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) →
LATIN
- Gustavo Cortiñas, Live in Chicago (Desafio Candente) →
- Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel, The Room (Real World) →
- Sergio Pamies, Time to Say (New Trad) →
DEBUT
- Julien Knowles, As Many, as One (Biophilia) →
- Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
- Zacchae'us Paul, Jazz Money (Candid) →
NEW ALBUMS
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
- Brian Landrus, Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto) →
- Jean-Michel Pilc-François Moutin-Ari Hoenig, You Are the Song (Justin Time) →
- John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband, Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic) →
- Anat Cohen Quartetinho, Bloom (Anzic) →
- Kevin Hays-Ben Street-Billy Hart, Bridges (Smoke Sessions '23) →
- Doug Richards Orchestra, Through a Sonic Prism: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (self-released '23) →
- Paul Dietrich, 5+4 (Shifting Paradigm) →
- Yosef-Gutman Levitt (With Lionel Loueke), Soul Song (Soul Song '23) →
- Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse! '23) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Live From the Northwest, 1959 (Brubeck Editions '23) →
VOCAL
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
- B.B. King, In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (Deep Digs/Elemental Music) →
- Al Jarreau, Wow! Live at the Childe Harold (1976, Resonance) →
LATIN
- Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note) →
- Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor, A Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
- Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Black Artist Group, For Peace and Liberty: In Paris, Dec 1972 (WeWantSounds) →
- Tim Berne & Michael Formanek, Parlour Games (1991, Relative Pitch) →
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
- Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Luciana Souza, Twenty-Four Short Musical Episodes (Sunnyside) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
DEBUT
- Holman Álvarez, Hidden Objects (Sunnyside) →
- Luther Allison, I Owe It All to You (Posi-Tone) →
NEW ALBUMS
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
- Adam O'Farrill, Hueso (Food) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- Space, Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →
- Nick Dunston, Colla Voce (Out of Your Head) →
- Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Amalie Dahl's Dafnie, Står Op Med Solen (Aguirre) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
- Don Byas, Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic '23) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Nisse Sandström Group, Öppet Ett (1965-67, Caprice '23) →
VOCAL
- Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →
LATIN
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
DEBUT
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
NEW ALBUMS
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- ØKSE, ØKSE (Backwoodz Studioz) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier, To Be Other-Wise (Intakt) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Note: Also see Best Jazz Albums of 2024
Allen Michie (The Arts Fuse)
NEW ALBUMS
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband, Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic) →
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Warren Wolf, History of the Vibraphone (Cellar Music) →
- Bria Skonberg, What It Means (Cellar Live) →
- Emile Parisien Quartet, Let Them Cook (ACT) →
- Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
- Troy Roberts, Green Lights (Toy Robot Music) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Terry Gibbs Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959 (Whaling City Sound) →
- Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (1941-51, Verve) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
VOCAL
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
- Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →
- Tierney Sutton and San Gabriel 7, Good People (JRL-SGS) →
LATIN
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
- Chucho Valdés & Royal Quartet, Cuba and Beyond (InterCat Music Group) →
- Dayramir González, V.I.D.A. [Verdad, Independencia, Diversidad Y Amor] (self-released) →
DEBUT
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
- Monique Chao Jazz Orchestra, Time Chamber (Da Vinci Jazz) →
- Charles Chen, Charles, Play! (Cellar Music) →
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
- Yussef Dayes, Black Classical Music (Brownswood/Nonesuch '23) →
- Abdullah Ibrahim, 3 (Gearbox) →
- Jihye Lee Orchestra, Infinite Connections (Motéma Music) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Reggie Quinerly, The Thousandth Scholar (Redefinition) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O, True Story (New Soil/Mushroom Hour) →
- Steve Turre, Sanyas (Smoke Sessions) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Note: New vote for James Carter Organ Trio, Live From Newport Jazz (Blue Note) disqualified (released in 2019)
NEW ALBUMS
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
- Chris Potter-Brad Mehldau-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Eagle's Point (Edition) →
- Lionel Loueke & Dave Holland, United (Edition) →
- Tim Armacost Chordless Quintet, Something About Believing (TMA) →
- Brian Lynch, 7x7by7 (Holistic MusicWorks) →
- Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →
- Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
- Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
- Michael Mayo, Fly (Mack Avenue) →
- Lisa Rich, As Long as You're Living (Tritone) →
LATIN
- Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner (Savant) →
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
DEBUT
- Neta Raanan, Unforeseen Blossom (Giant Step Arts) →
- Pritesh Walia, Hope Town (Pritesh Walia Music) →
- Julien Knowles, As Many, as One (Biophilia) →
NEW ALBUMS
- Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music) →
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- Kevin Sun, The Fate of the Tenor (Endectomorph) →
- Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley, Polarity 3 (Burning Ambulance) →
- Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable (Blue Note) →
- Elephant9 With Terje Rypdal, Catching Fire (Rune Grammofon) →
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
- Kamasi Washington, Fearless Movement (Young) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
- Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
- Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) →
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
- Peter Bernstein, Better Angels (Smoke Sessions) →
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81) →
- Taylor Eigsti, Plot Armor (GroundUP Music) →
- Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Chris Potter-Brad Mehldau-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Eagle's Point (Edition) →
- Jim Snidero, For All We Know (Savant) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Chet Baker & Jack Sheldon, In Perfect Harmony: The Lost Album (1972, Jazz Detective) →
- Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Catherine Russell & Sean Mason, My Ideal (Dot Time) →
- Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens) →
LATIN
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Hamilton De Holanda, Collab (Sony Music Brazil) →
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution Recording Collective) →
- Donald Vega, As I Travel (Imagery/Tiger Turn) →
DEBUT
- Art Baden, How Much of It Is Real (Rainy Days) →
- Euan Edmonds, Beyond Hope and Fear (Desafio Candente) →
NEW ALBUMS
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
- Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →
- Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) →
- Jon Batiste, Beethoven Blues [Batiste Piano Series, Vol. 1] (Verve/Interscope) →
- Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note) →
- Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens) →
- Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
- Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
VOCAL
- Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
- Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens) →
- Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →
LATIN
- Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Swing Forever (Ovation) →
DEBUT
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
NEW ALBUMS
- AALY Trio [Mats Gustafsson-Peter Janson-Kjell Nordeson], Sustain (Silkheart) →
- ØKSE, ØKSE (Backwoodz Studioz) →
- Ivo Perelman-Mark Helias-Tom Rainey, Truth Seeker (Fundacja Sluchaj) →
- Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Peter Evans, Extra (We Jazz) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband, Turnchest (Particular) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
VOCAL
- Eirik Hegdal Eklektisk Samband, Turnchest (Particular) →
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →
LATIN
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
DEBUT
- Dubbeltrion, Bringing Scandi-Baltic Powerhousejazz to the People (Sonic Transmissions) →
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
- Anni Kiviniemi Trio, Eir (We Jazz) →
Note: Also see Year end picks: 50 favorite albums of 2024