The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Annie Parnell (VPM Music/WCVE [NPR/Richmond, VA], Paste, Flood)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Kamasi Washington, Fearless Movement (Young)
  2. Nala Sinephro, Endlessness (Warp)
  3. Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord)
  4. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  5. Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  6. Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music)
  7. Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve)
  8. Abdullah Ibrahim, 3 (Gearbox)
  9. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  10. Jasmine Myra, Rising (Gondwana)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Pink Elephants on Parade (1985-90, Modern Harmonic)
  4. Dave Pike, The Doors of Perception (1966, Nature Sounds)
  5. Louis Armstrong, Louis in London (1968, Verve)

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