The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Peter Margasak (Nowhere Street, DownBeat, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
  2. Adam O'Farrill, Hueso (Food) →
  3. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
  4. Space, Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch) →
  5. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  6. Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt) →
  7. Nick Dunston, Colla Voce (Out of Your Head) →
  8. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
  9. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
  10. Amalie Dahl's Dafnie, Står Op Med Solen (Aguirre) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
  2. King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
  3. Don Byas, Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic '23) →
  4. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  5. Nisse Sandström Group, Öppet Ett (1965-67, Caprice '23) →

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