The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Kevin Lynch (The Shepherd Express, Culture Currents (Vernaculars Speak))

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
  2. Brian Landrus, Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto) →
  3. Jean-Michel Pilc-François Moutin-Ari Hoenig, You Are the Song (Justin Time) →
  4. John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband, Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic) →
  5. Anat Cohen Quartetinho, Bloom (Anzic) →
  6. Kevin Hays-Ben Street-Billy Hart, Bridges (Smoke Sessions '23) →
  7. Doug Richards Orchestra, Through a Sonic Prism: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (self-released '23) →
  8. Paul Dietrich, 5+4 (Shifting Paradigm) →
  9. Yosef-Gutman Levitt (With Lionel Loueke), Soul Song (Soul Song '23) →
  10. Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse! '23) →
  2. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
  3. The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Live From the Northwest, 1959 (Brubeck Editions '23) →

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