The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Tim Niland (freelance, Blue Sky)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
  2. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  4. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  5. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
  6. Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor, A Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt)
  7. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81)
  8. John Zorn, New Masada Quartet, Volume 3: Live at Roulette (Tzadik)
  9. Elephant9 With Terje Rypdal, Catching Fire (Rune Grammofon)
  10. Tom Harrell, Alternate Summer (HighNote)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto)
  3. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: Also see 2024 Music Rewind.