The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Peter Quinn (Jazzwise, The Arts Desk, Songlines)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Taylor Eigsti, Plot Armor (GroundUP Music)
  2. Jihye Lee Orchestra, Infinite Connections (Motéma Music)
  3. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork)
  4. Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note)
  5. Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside)
  6. Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note)
  7. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  8. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note)
  9. Pat Metheny, MoonDial (BMG)
  10. Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)
  2. Dorothy Ashby, Afro-Harping [Deluxe Edition] (1968, Verve)
  3. Thelonious Monk, Criss-Cross (1963, Columbia/Pure Pleasure)
  4. Duke Ellington, Copenhagen 1958 (Storyville)
  5. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance)

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