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