The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024 Mid-Year

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Karl Ackermann (All About Jazz, Chicago Jazz Magazine)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  2. Nils Økland Band, Gjenskinn (Hubro)
  3. Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz, Ex Machina (Pi '23)
  4. Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM)
  5. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  6. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt)
  7. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
  8. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  9. Ballister, Smash and Grab (Aerophonic)
  10. Daniel Carter-Patrick Holmes-Matthew Putman-Hilliard Greene-Federico Ughi, Telepathic Mysteries, Vol. 2 (577)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  2. Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM)
  3. Hampton Hawes, For Real! (1958, Craft)
  4. Harold Land, The Fox (1960, Craft)
  5. Cannonball Adderley, Poppin' in Paris: Live at L'Olympia 1972 (Elemental Music)