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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