The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Jim Macnie (DownBeat, Lament for a Straight Line)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  2. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  3. Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note)
  4. Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt)
  5. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi)
  6. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform)
  7. Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor, A Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt)
  8. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
  9. Matt Mitchell, Zealous Angles (Pi)
  10. Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  2. Black Artist Group, For Peace and Liberty: In Paris, Dec 1972 (WeWantSounds)
  3. Tim Berne & Michael Formanek, Parlour Games (1991, Relative Pitch)
  4. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM)
  5. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto)

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