The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Philip Watson (Irish Times, Irish Examiner)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic)
  2. Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt)
  4. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
  5. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  6. Nubya Garcia, Odyssey (Concord Jazz)
  7. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note)
  8. Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley, Journey to Where (Stoney Lane)
  9. Ben Monder, Planetarium (Sunnyside)
  10. Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  3. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note)
  4. Keith Jarrett-Gary Peacock-Paul Motian, The Old Country (1992, ECM)
  5. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)

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