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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Ken Dryden (New York City Jazz Record, Hot House, Timeless Jazz [WUTC-FM], All About Jazz)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Charles McPherson, Reverence (Smoke Sessions)
  2. Kenny Barron, Beyond This Place (Artwork)
  3. Denny Zeitlin, Panoply (Sunnyside)
  4. Marshall Gilkes and WDR Big Band, Life Songs (Alternate Side)
  5. Ben Allison-Steve Cardenas-Ted Nash, Tell the Birds I Said Hello: The Music of Herbie Nichols (Sonic Camera)
  6. Ken Peplowski, Unheard Bird (Arbors)
  7. Jon Gordon, 7th Ave South (ArtistShare)
  8. Dave Pietro, The Talisman (SteepleChase)
  9. Chick Corea & Béla Fleck, Remembrance (Thirty Tigers)
  10. Chris Byars, Boptics (SteepleChase)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Nat King Cole, Live at the Blue Note Chicago (1953, Iconic)
  3. Don Byas, Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946 (Mosaic '23)
  4. Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music)
  5. The Oscar Pettiford Memorial Concert (1960, SteepleChase)