The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024
Ballot 2024
NEW ALBUMS
- Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
- Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM) →
- Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
- Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork) →
- Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani) →
- Jeff Coffin, Only the Horizon (Ear Up) →
- Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
- Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note) →
- Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note) →
- Nat King Cole, Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic) →
- Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
- Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note) →
- Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy) →
- Lizz Wright, Shadow (Blues & Greens) →
LATIN
- Jonathan Powell, Mambo Jazz Party (Circle 9) →
- Milton Nascimento & Esperanza Spalding, Milton + Esperanza (Concord) →
- Miguel Zenón, Golden City (Miel Music) →
DEBUT
- Luther Allison, I Owe It All to You (Posi-Tone) →
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine) →
- Vanisha Gould, She's Not Shiny, She's Not Smooth (Cellar Live) →