The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Bret Saunders (Denver Post, KBCO-FM [Denver])

NEW ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret)
  2. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  3. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  4. Kim Cass, Levs (Pi)
  5. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  6. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk)
  7. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
  8. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  9. William Parker-Cooper-Moore-Hamid Drake, Heart Trio (AUM Fidelity)
  10. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  3. Dorothy Ashby, Afro-Harping [Deluxe Edition] (1968, Verve)
  4. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance)
  5. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive)

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