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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Kurt Gottschalk (New York City Jazz Record, The Wire, WKCR)

NEW RELEASES

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret)
  2. Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House)
  3. Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt)
  4. Marta Warelis & Andy Moor, Escape (Relative Pitch)
  5. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Anthony Braxton-Roland Dahinden-Hildegard Kleeb, Four Compositions (Wesleyan) 2013 (Prague Music Platform '23)
  2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  3. Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Pink Elephants on Parade (1985-90, Modern Harmonic)