The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Gene Seymour (The Nation, CNN.com)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  2. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
  3. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  4. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi)
  5. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note)
  6. Samara Joy, Portrait (Verve)
  7. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  8. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  9. Allen Lowe & the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, Louis Armstrong's America (ESP-Disk)
  10. Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  2. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic)
  3. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  4. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  5. Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: Also see Gene Seymour's Top Ten Jazz Albums for 2024.