The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballot 2024
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