The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballot 2024
NEW ALBUMS
- Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
- Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
- Ingebrigt Håker Flaten & (Exit) Knarr, Breezy (Sonic Transmissions) →
- Luke Stewart Silt Trio, Unknown Rivers (Pi) →
- Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search) →
- The Core, Roots (Moserobie) →
- Walter Smith III, Three of Us Are From Houston and Reuben Is Not (Blue Note) →
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
- Jason Robinson, Ancestral Numbers (Playscape) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Louis Armstrong, Louis in London (1968, Verve) →
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms) →
- Betty Bryant, Lotta Livin' (Bry-Mar Music) →
- Javon Jackson & Nikki Giovanni, Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies (Solid Jackson/Palmetto) →
LATIN
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music) →
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
- Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →
DEBUT
- Alfredo Colón, Blood Burden (Out of Your Head) →
- Salvoandrea Lucifora Quartet, Drifters (We Jazz '23) →