The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Michael J. West (DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
  2. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The World Is on Fire (Division 81) →
  3. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
  4. Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
  5. Amanda Whiting, The Liminality of Her (First Word) →
  6. Tyshawn Sorey Trio, The Susceptible Now (Pi) →
  7. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
  8. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
  9. Dayna Stephens, Closer Than We Think (Cellar Music) →
  10. Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko, Bamako*Chicago Sound System (FPE) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Centennial (1923, Archeophone) →
  2. Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music) →
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  4. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
  5. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →

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