The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (TAO Forms)
  2. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  3. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity)
  4. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note)
  5. Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside)
  6. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  7. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
  8. Jason Stein, Anchors (TAO Forms)
  9. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic)
  10. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  3. Sun Ra, Lights on a Satellite: Live at the Left Bank (1978, Resonance)
  4. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)
  5. Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM)

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