The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Ken Waxman (Jazz Word)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
  2. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  3. Axel Dörner-Guilherme Rodrigues-Jung-Jae Kim-Stephen Flinn, Chess Music (Creative Sources '23) →
  4. DUOT & ZARM Ensemble, DUOT With Strings (Fundacja Słuchaj '23) →
  5. François Houle-Kate Gentile-Alexander Hawkins, Fatrasies (Victo) →
  6. Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk) →
  7. Jason Robinson, Ancestral Numbers II (Playscape) →
  8. Harri Sjöström-Erhard Hirt-Philipp Wachsmann-Paul Lytton, Especially for You (Bead '23) →
  9. Vazesh, Tapestry (Earshift Music) →
  10. Albert Beger-Ziv Taubenfeld-Shay Hazan-Hamid Drake, Cosmic Waves (NoBusiness) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. NRG Ensemble, Hold That Thought (1996, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
  2. Faruq Z. Bey, Atlant-Tan Suite (1982, Entropy Stereo) →
  3. Derek Bailey & Sabu Toyozumi, Breath Awareness (1987, NoBusiness) →
  4. Byard Lancaster-Steve McCall-Sylvin Marc, Us (1973, Souffle Continu) →
  5. Daunik Lazro-Paul Lovens-Annick Nozati-Fred Van Hove, Résumé of a Century (1999, Fou) →

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