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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Paul Acquaro (Free Jazz Collective, Jazzpodium)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Edition Redux, Better a Rook Than a Pawn (Audiographic '23)
  2. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  3. Peter Van Huffel's Callisto, Meandering Demons (Clean Feed)
  4. Frank Paul Schubert-Michel Pilz-Stefan Scheib-Klaus Kugel, Live at FreeJazz Saar 2019 (Nemu)
  5. Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music)
  6. Aki Takase Japanic, Forte (Budapest Music Center)
  7. Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt)
  8. Jon Irabagon Trio, Dinner & Dancing (Irrabagast)
  9. Space, Embrace the Space (Relative Pitch)
  10. John Etheridge, Blue Spirits Live (Dyad)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive)
  2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  3. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics)