The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Derk Richardson (The Absolute Sound)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Joe Fonda Quartet, Eyes on the Horizon (Long Song)
  2. Jenny Scheinman, All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family)
  3. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  4. Zen Widow, IV (From One Dark Age to Another) (Objet-a/Intervention '23)
  5. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
  6. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  7. Kaze, Unwritten (Circum/Libra)
  8. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  9. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk)
  10. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  3. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective)
  4. Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto)
  5. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)

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