The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballot 2024
NEW ALBUMS
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note) →
- Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt) →
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor, A Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi) →
- Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Black Artist Group, For Peace and Liberty: In Paris, Dec 1972 (WeWantSounds) →
- Tim Berne & Michael Formanek, Parlour Games (1991, Relative Pitch) →
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
- Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Luciana Souza, Twenty-Four Short Musical Episodes (Sunnyside) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
DEBUT
- Holman Álvarez, Hidden Objects (Sunnyside) →
- Luther Allison, I Owe It All to You (Posi-Tone) →