The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Stewart Smith (freelance: The Wire, The Quietus, Bandcamp Daily, We Jazz, The Guardian)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  3. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms)
  4. Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku)
  5. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
  6. Wendy Eisenberg, Viewfinder (American Dreams)
  7. Kavain Wayne Space & XT, Yesyespeakersyes (Feedback Moves)
  8. Sakina Abdou-Toma Gouband-Marta Warelis, Hammer, Roll and Leaf (Relative Pitch)
  9. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem)
  10. Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive)
  2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  3. Tony Oxley, Angular Apron (1992, Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  4. Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata, Trancedance [40th Anniversary Edition] (1984, Black Truffle)
  5. Louis Moholo-Moholo's Viva-La-Black (1988, Ogun)

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