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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