The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024

Ballot 2024

Fabricio Vieira (FreeForm, FreeJazz)

NEW ALBUMS

  1. Patricia Brennan Septet, Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic) →
  2. Fire!, Testament (Rune Grammofon) →
  3. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch) →
  4. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret) →
  5. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, The Way Out of Easy (International Anthem) →
  6. Darius Jones, Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) (AUM Fidelity) →
  7. Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) →
  8. David Maranha & Rodrigo Amado, Wrecks (Nariz Entupido) →
  9. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk) →
  10. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive) →
  2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!) →
  3. Children of the Sun, Ofamfa (1971, Moved-by-Sound) →
  4. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics) →
  5. Die Like a Dog [Peter Brötzmann-Toshinori Kondo-William Parker-Hamid Drake], Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler (1994, Cien Fuegos) →

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