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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Dan Buskirk (WPRB [Princeton], Fun2Know Podcast)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, New Monuments (We Jazz)
  2. Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve)
  3. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  4. Beings, There Is a Garden (No Quarter)
  5. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  6. Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search)
  7. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Jet Black (Libra)
  8. Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt)
  9. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline)
  10. Mai Sugimoto, Sunlight Filtering Through the Leaves (Asian Improv)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music)
  2. Sun Ra, Inside the Light World: Sun Ra Meets the OVC (1986, Strut)
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  4. Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music)
  5. Grupo Irakere, Teatro Amadeo Roldan Recital (1974, Mr Bongo)