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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