The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Devin Leonard (Bloomberg Businessweek)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi)
  2. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi)
  3. Noah Preminger & Rob Garcia [Dead Composers Club], Hildegard Project: The Music of Hildegard Von Bingen (Connection Works)
  4. Brad Mehldau, Après Fauré (Nonesuch)
  5. Simon Moullier, Elements of Light (Candid)
  6. M.T.B. [Brad Mehldau-Mark Turner-Peter Bernstein], Solid Jackson (Criss Cross Jazz)
  7. Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note)
  8. Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note)
  9. Ben Wendel, Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition)
  10. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  2. Kurt Rosenwinkel, The Next Step Band: Live at Smalls 1996 (Heartcore)
  3. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic)

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