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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