The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune/Tribune News Service)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  2. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi)
  3. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  4. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note)
  5. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  6. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  7. Charles McPherson, Reverence (Smoke Sessions)
  8. Hermeto Pascoal, Pra Você, Ilza (Rocinante)
  9. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  10. Steph Richards, Power Vibe (Northern Spy)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  2. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy)
  3. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective)

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