The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballot 2024
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) →