The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Derek Taylor (Dusted)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
  2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt) →
  3. Kirk Knuffke, Super Blonde (SteepleChase) →
  4. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
  5. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform) →
  6. Jim Snidero, For All We Know (Savant) →
  7. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
  8. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  9. Jason Kao Hwang, Soliloquies: Unaccompanied Pizzicato Violin Improvisations (True Sound) →
  10. Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  2. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
  3. Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?, The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz) →
  4. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
  5. John Coltrane, Impressions From Graz 1962 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) →

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