The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Rob Shepherd (PostGenre Media)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  2. Mulatu Astatke & Hoodna Orchestra, Tension (Batov)
  3. Brandon Ross Phantom Station, Off the End (Sunnyside)
  4. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline)
  5. Colin Stetson, The Love It Took to Leave You (Invada)
  6. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  7. David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic)
  8. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  9. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  10. Sun Ra Arkestra [Under the Direction of Marshall Allen], Lights on a Satellite (In+Out)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens (1984-88, Resonance)
  2. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  4. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  5. The Malombo Jazz Men, Castle Lager Jazz Fesetival 1964 (Strut)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: See also Rob Shepherd's Favorite Albums of 2024