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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

J.D. Considine (DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  2. Wayne Shorter, Celebration, Volume 1 (2014, Blue Note)
  3. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  4. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note)
  5. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  6. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt)
  7. Chris Potter-Brad Mehldau-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Eagle's Point (Edition)
  8. Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band, Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani)
  9. Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer, But Who's Gonna Play the Melody? (Mack Avenue)
  10. Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic)
  3. Cannonball Adderley, Poppin' in Paris: Live at L'Olympia 1972 (Elemental Music)
  4. Louis Armstrong, Louis in London (1968, Verve)