The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Adam Shatz (London Review of Books)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  2. Ron Horton, A Prayer for Andrew (Newvelle '23)
  3. Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor, A Monster Is Just an Animal You Haven't Met Yet (Intakt)
  4. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
  5. Nick Dunston, Colla Voce (Out of Your Head)
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, Owl Song (Nonesuch '23)
  7. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
  8. Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey, Brink (Intakt)
  9. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  10. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic)
  2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  4. Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music)
  5. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)

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