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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Will Layman (PopMatters)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Jamie Baum Septet+, What Times Are These (Sunnyside)
  2. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms)
  3. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  4. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  5. Matt Mitchell, Illimitable (Obliquity)
  6. Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music)
  7. Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note)
  8. Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt)
  9. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  10. Chris Potter-Brad Mehldau-John Patitucci-Brian Blade, Eagle's Point (Edition)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  3. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective)