The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Mike Shanley (Shanley on Music, New York City Jazz Record)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi)
  2. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
  3. Jason Stein, Anchors (TAO Forms)
  4. Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & (Exit) Knarr, Breezy (Sonic Transmissions)
  5. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  6. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  7. Miles Okazaki, Miniature America (Cygnus)
  8. Caroline Davis & Wendy Eisenberg, Accept When (Astral Spirits)
  9. Ben Monder, Planetarium (Sunnyside)
  10. William Parker & Ellen Christi, Cereal Music (AUM Fidelity)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Mingus, Mingus Takes Manhattan: The Complete Birdland Dates: 1961-1962 (New Land)
  2. Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard: The Complete Masters (1957, Blue Note)
  3. Harold Land, The Fox (1960, Craft)
  4. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective)
  5. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance)

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