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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Bill Brownlee (Plastic Sax)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Borderlands Trio [Stephan Crump-Kris Davis-Eric McPherson], Rewilder (Intakt)
  2. Fred Hersch, Silent, Listening (ECM)
  3. Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, New Monuments (We Jazz)
  4. Abdullah Ibrahim, 3 (Gearbox)
  5. Betty Bryant, Lotta Livin' (Bry-Mar Music)
  6. Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note)
  7. Tarbaby, You Think This America (Giant Step Arts)
  8. Sunny Five [Tim Berne-David Torn-Ches Smith-Devin Hoff-Marc Ducret], Candid (Intakt)
  9. أحمد [Ahmed], Wood Blues (Astral Spirits)
  10. Rod Fleeman Trio, Saturday Afternoon Live at Green Lady Lounge Volume 3 (Green Lady Radio)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive)
  3. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  4. Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM)
  5. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance)