The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Ron Wynn (The Nashville Scene, The Tennessee Tribune, Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society, Rock & Blues Muse)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  2. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  3. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  4. Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)
  5. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork)
  6. Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani)
  7. Jeff Coffin, Only the Horizon (Ear Up)
  8. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  9. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note)
  10. Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  2. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  3. Nat King Cole, Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic)
  4. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  5. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)

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