The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Richard Williams (The Blue Moment)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Michael Shrieve, Drums of Compassion (7D Media) →
  2. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
  3. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
  4. Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (False Walls) →
  5. Alice Zawadzki-Fred Thomas-Misha Mullov-Abbado, Za Górami (ECM) →
  6. Ohad Talmor, Back to the Land (Intakt) →
  7. Giovanni Guidi, A New Day (ECM) →
  8. Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku) →
  9. Mike Westbrook, Band of Bands (Westbrook Music) →
  10. Daniel Sommer-Arve Henriksen-Johannes Lundberg, Sounds & Sequences (April) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy) →
  2. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance) →
  3. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
  4. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  5. Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (1941-51, Verve) →

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