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