The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballot 2024
NEW ALBUMS
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
- Brian Landrus, Plays Ellington & Strayhorn (Palmetto) →
- Jean-Michel Pilc-François Moutin-Ari Hoenig, You Are the Song (Justin Time) →
- John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband, Colouring Hockets (Plexatonic) →
- Anat Cohen Quartetinho, Bloom (Anzic) →
- Kevin Hays-Ben Street-Billy Hart, Bridges (Smoke Sessions '23) →
- Doug Richards Orchestra, Through a Sonic Prism: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim (self-released '23) →
- Paul Dietrich, 5+4 (Shifting Paradigm) →
- Yosef-Gutman Levitt (With Lionel Loueke), Soul Song (Soul Song '23) →
- Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy, Evenings at the Village Gate (1961, Impulse! '23) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Live From the Northwest, 1959 (Brubeck Editions '23) →
VOCAL
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
- B.B. King, In France: Live at the 1977 Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival (Deep Digs/Elemental Music) →
- Al Jarreau, Wow! Live at the Childe Harold (1976, Resonance) →
LATIN
- Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →
DEBUT