The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballots 2024 [8]
Bret Saunders (Denver Post, KBCO-FM [Denver])
NEW ALBUMS
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
- Kim Cass, Levs (Pi) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- William Parker-Cooper-Moore-Hamid Drake, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- Dorothy Ashby, Afro-Harping [Deluxe Edition] (1968, Verve) →
- Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
- Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
LATIN
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
DEBUT
- Tomin, A Willed and Conscious Balance (International Anthem) →
Sarah Schmidt (Jazz Director, WRFL-FM [Lexington, KY])
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Ballister, Smash and Grab (Aerophonic) →
- Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Spin (Ronin Rhythm) →
- Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
- Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi) →
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
- Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Don Byas, Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic '23) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
LATIN
- Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
DEBUT
Gene Seymour (The Nation, CNN.com)
NEW ALBUMS
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk) →
- Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →
- Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →
VOCAL
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
- Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition) →
- Luciana Souza, Twenty-Four Short Musical Episodes (Sunnyside) →
LATIN
- Etienne Charles, Creole Orchestra (Culture Shock) →
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
DEBUT
Note: Also see Gene Seymour's Top Ten Jazz Albums for 2024.
NEW ALBUMS
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Jason Stein, Anchors (TAO Forms) →
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & (Exit) Knarr, Breezy (Sonic Transmissions) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
- Miles Okazaki, Miniature America (Cygnus) →
- Caroline Davis & Wendy Eisenberg, Accept When (Astral Spirits) →
- Ben Monder, Planetarium (Sunnyside) →
- William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charles Mingus, Mingus Takes Manhattan: The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961-1962 (New Land) →
- Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters (1957, Blue Note) →
- Harold Land, The Fox (1960, Craft) →
- Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
VOCAL
- William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) →
LATIN
DEBUT
John Sharpe (The New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, All About Jazz)
NEW ALBUMS
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
- John Blum-David Murray-Chad Taylor, The Recursive Tree (Relative Pitch '23) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey, Brink (Intakt) →
- John Butcher-Pat Thomas-Dominic Lash-Steve Noble, Fathom (577) →
- Rob Brown, Oblongata (RogueArt '23) →
- Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Jet Black (Libra) →
- Angelica Sanchez-Barry Guy-Ramón López, Live at Jazzdor (Maya) →
- Olie Brice-Rachel Musson-Mark Sanders, Immense Blue (West Hill) →
- Kirke Karja-Étienne Renard-Ludwig Wandinger, Caught in My Own Trap (BMC) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
- Gush, Afro Blue (1998, Trost) →
- Arthur Blythe Quartet, Live From Studio Rivbea: July 6, 1976 (NoBusiness) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Adam Shatz (London Review of Books)
NEW ALBUMS
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Ron Horton, A Prayer for Andrew (Newvelle '23) →
- Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor, A Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Nick Dunston, Colla Voce (Out of Your Head) →
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Owl Song (Nonesuch '23) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey, Brink (Intakt) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra, Tension (Batov) →
- Brandon Ross Phantom Station, Off the End (Sunnyside) →
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
- Colin Stetson, The Love It Took to Leave You (Invada) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) →
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- Sun Ra Arkestra [Under the Direction of Marshall Allen], Lights on a Satellite (In+Out) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
- Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- The Malombo Jazz Men, Castle Lager Jazz Fesetival 1964 (Strut) →
VOCAL
- Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) →
- John Zorn & Jesse Harris [Petra Haden], Love Songs Live (Tzadik) →
- Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
LATIN
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic) →
DEBUT
- Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
- Willy Rodriguez, Seeing Sounds (Coucs) →
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
Note: See also Rob Shepherd's Favorite Albums of 2024
NEW ALBUMS
- Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Louis Hayes, Artform Revisited (Savant) →
- The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
- Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) →
- Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) →
- Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
- Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
VOCAL
- Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder (American Dreams) →
LATIN
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
DEBUT
- Bark Culture, Warm Wisdom (Temperphantom) →
Note: Also see Best Jazz Albums of 2024 [New York Times]; also Best of 2024: Jazz [Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches]
Slim (WRCU: Slim's Spins and The Slim & Him Show)
NEW ALBUMS
- Denis Badault, Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Yolk) →
- Younee, Improvisations Live in Germany (Fulminantmusic) →
- Charlie Ballantine, Love Letters & Graffiti (Green Mind) →
- Jenny Scheinman, All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family) →
- Camille Thurman With the Darrell Queen Quartet, Confluence Vol. 1: Alhambra (Epidote) →
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Open Me, a Higher Consciousness of Sound and Spirit (Spiritmuse) →
- Joel Futterman, Innervoice (NoBusiness) →
- Tucker Brothers, Live at Chatterbox (Midwest Crush Music) →
- Brandon Seabrook, Object of Unknown Function (Pyroclastic) →
- Caleb Wheeler Curtis, The True Story of Bears and the Invention of the Battery (Imani) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charles Tolliver Music Inc., Live at the Captain's Cabin (1973, Cellar Music) →
- Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
- Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →
VOCAL
- Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy, Life's a Gig (Fresh Sound New Talent) →
- Andrea Wolper, Wanderlust (Moonflower Music) →
- Robbie Madison, Live at Sambuca (Madison Productions) →
LATIN
DEBUT
- Riley Mulherkar, Riley (Westerlies) →
- Neta Raanan, Unforeseen Blossom (Giant Step Arts) →
Stewart Smith (freelance: The Wire, The Quietus, Bandcamp Daily, We Jazz, The Guardian)
NEW ALBUMS
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder (American Dreams) →
- Kavain Wayne Space & XT, Yesyespeakersyes (Feedback Moves) →
- Sakina Abdou-Toma Gouband-Marta Warelis, Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch) →
- Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
- Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Tony Oxley, Angular Apron (1992, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
- Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata, Trancedance [40th Anniversary Edition] (1984, Black Truffle) →
- Louis Moholo-Moholo's Viva-La-Black (1988, Ogun) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Jeffrey St. Clair (Counterpunch: Sound Grammar)
NEW ALBUMS
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
- Jenny Scheinman, All Species Parade (Royal Potato Family) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable (Blue Note) →
- Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) →
- Abdullah Ibrahim, 3 (Gearbox) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
- Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →
VOCAL
- Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) →
LATIN
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
DEBUT
- O., WeirdOs (Speedy Wunderground) →
Note: Also see Sound Grammar: the Best Jazz Recordings of 2024
Thomas Staudter (The (Croton) Gazette, DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record, The Recorder)
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note) →
- Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside) →
- T.K. Blue, Planet Bluu (JAJA) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz) →
- Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra, This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters (Palmetto) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Ryan Keberle & Catharsis, Music Is Connection (Alternate Side) →
- Adam O'Farrill, Hueso (Food) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Terry Gibbs Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959 (Whaling City Sound) →
- King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
- Classic V-Disc Small Group Jazz Sessions, 1943-49 (Mosaic) →
VOCAL
- Jacqui Naylor, Treasures of the Heart (Ruby Star) →
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
- Andromeda Turre, From the Earth (Outside In Music) →
LATIN
- Roy Hargrove's Crisol, Grande-Terre (1998, Verve) →
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Hamilton De Holanda, Collab (Sony Music Brazil) →
- Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours, Songs Del Yucayeke (Picaro) →
DEBUT
Sammy Stein (Free Jazz Collective, WeJazz, Platinum Mind, Something Else Reviews, Kind of Jazz)
NEW ALBUMS
- Ivo Perelman-Fay Victor-Jim Morris-Ramon Lopez, Messa Di Voce (Mahakala Music) →
- Paula Rae Gibson, The Roles We Play to Disappear (33Xtreme) →
- Jo Harrop, The Path of a Tear (Lateralize) →
- Satya, Songs of the Fathers: A Celebration of the Music of Abdullah Ibrahim (Resonant Artists) →
- Maddalena Ghezzi & Ruth Goller, Dolomite (Deng Yue) →
- Charlotte Keeffe Right Here, Right Now Quartet, Alive! in the Studio (Discus Music '23) →
- Lara Eidi, Sun (self-released) →
- Mama Terra, The Summoned (Acid Jazz '23) →
- Terrence Collie, 384,400 (Mood Indigo '23) →
- Olie Brice-Rachel Musson-Mark Sanders, Immense Blue (West Hill) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
VOCAL
- Ivo Perelman-Fay Victor-Jim Morris-Ramon Lopez, Messa Di Voce (Mahakala Music) →
- Jo Harrop, The Path of a Tear (Lateralize) →
- Iris Harley, Last Breath (self-released) →
- Lara Eidi, Sun (self-released) →
- Lyia Meta, Next (self-released) →
LATIN
DEBUT
Mark Stryker (Jazz From Detroit [University of Michigan Press])
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Bill Charlap Trio, And Then Again (Blue Note) →
- Etienne Charles, Creole Orchestra (Culture Shock) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
- Charles McPherson, Reverence (Smoke Sessions) →
- Lux Quartet, Tomorrowland (Enja/Yellowbird) →
- Out Of/Into [Joel Ross-Gerald Clayton-Kendrick Scott-Matt Brewer-Immanuel Wilkins], Motion I (Blue Note) →
- Jason Palmer, The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts) →
- Jim Snidero, For All We Know (Savant) →
- Ben Wolfe, The Understated (Resident Arts) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music) →
- King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
- Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (1941-51, Verve) →
- Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters (1957, Blue Note) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition) →
- Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani) →
- Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve) →
LATIN
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
- Renee Rosnes, Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions) →
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
DEBUT
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
- Willy Rodriguez, Seeing Sounds (Coucs) →
- April Varner, April (Cellar Music) →
Mark Sullivan (All About Jazz)
NEW ALBUMS
- Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →
- Jakob Bro-Lee Konitz-Bill Frisell-Jason Moran-Thomas Morgan-Andrew Cyrille, Taking Turns (2014, ECM) →
- Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music) →
- Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz) →
- Andrew Hill Sextet Plus 10, A Beautiful Day Revisited (2002, Palmetto) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Wolfgang Muthspiel, Etudes/Quietudes (Clap Your Hands) →
- Magnus Öström & Dan Berglund, e.s.t. 30 (ACT Music) →
- Brad Shepik, Human Activity: Dream of the Possible (Shifting Paradigm) →
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Cannonball Adderley, Poppin' in Paris: Live at L'Olympia 1972 (Elemental Music) →
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM) →
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS
- Tomin, A Willed and Conscious Balance (International Anthem) →
- William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- La La Lars, La La Lars IV (<1000 '23) →
- Cassie Kinoshi's Seed., Gratitude (International Anthem) →
- Carlos Bica, 11:11 (Clean Feed) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Rebecca Trescher Tentet, Character Pieces (self-released) →
- Alexi Tuomarila, Departing the Wasteland (Edition) →
- Sylvanie Hélary & Orchestre Incandescent, Rare Birds (Yolk) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
- Jakob Bro-Lee Konitz-Bill Frisell-Jason Moran-Thomas Morgan-Andrew Cyrille, Taking Turns (2014, ECM) →
VOCAL
- William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity) →
- Sylvanie Hélary & Orchestre Incandescent, Rare Birds (Yolk) →
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
LATIN
- New Jazz Underground [Ft. Axel Tosca + Gina D'Soto], Harlem to Havana: Afro-Cuban Modernism Vol. 1 (self-released) →
- Emilio Reyna, Los Niños Perdidos (Ropeadope Sur) →
- Vinicius Cantuaria, Psychedelic Rio (Sunnyside) →
DEBUT
- Tomin, A Willed and Conscious Balance (International Anthem) →
- divr, Is This Water (We Jazz) →
- The Elephant, In the Room (Original Cultures) →
John Szwed (Wire, Gagosian Quarterly, Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies)
NEW ALBUMS (unranked)
- Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk) →
- Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet, Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt '23) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Dynamic Maximum Tension (Nonesuch '23) →
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
- Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →
- Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers Vol. 1 (Edition) →
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Melusine (Nonesuch '23) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte Del Bolero, Vol. 2 (Miel Music '23) →
- Luciana Souza & Trio Corrente, Cometa (Sunnyside '23) →
- Arturo O'Farrill, Legacies (Blue Note '23) →
DEBUT
Note: Voter did not specify which volume of Kurt Elling & Sullivan Fortner, Wildflowers (Edition), so counted as Vol. 1
Jeff Tamarkin (Relix, Best Classic Bands, Mojo)
NEW ALBUMS
- Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →
- Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix Reimagined (Live) (Ropeadope) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Kamasi Washington, Fearless Movement (Young) →
- Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz) →
- Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) →
- John Scofield, Uncle John's Band (ECM '23) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Scott LaFaro, The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro (1957-61, El) →
- Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance) →
- Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →
- Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve) →
- Eliane Elias, Time and Again (Candid) →
- Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
LATIN
- Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Swing Forever (Ovation) →
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
DEBUT
NEW ALBUMS
- أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
- Kirk Knuffke, Super Blonde (SteepleChase) →
- Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
- Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
- Jim Snidero, For All We Know (Savant) →
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Jason Kao Hwang, Soliloquies: Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations (True Sound) →
- Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
- Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?, The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz) →
- Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
- John Coltrane, Impressions From Graz 1962 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Sara Serpa, Encounters & Collisions (Biophilia) →
- Joe McPhee & Ken Vandermark, Musings of a Bahamian Son: Poems and Other Words (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
- Holman Álvarez, Hidden Objects (Sunnyside) →
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
DEBUT
- Jamale Davis, Run With the Hunted (SteepleChase) →
NEW ALBUMS
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & (Exit) Knarr, Breezy (Sonic Transmissions) →
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
- Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
- The Core, Roots (Moserobie) →
- Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
- Jason Robinson, Ancestral Numbers (Playscape) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Louis Armstrong, Louis in London (1968, Verve) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Betty Bryant, Lotta Livin' (Bry-Mar Music) →
- Javon Jackson & Nikki Giovanni, Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies (Solid Jackson/Palmetto) →
LATIN
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
DEBUT
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
- Salvoandrea Lucifora Quartet, Drifters (We Jazz '23) →