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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Ammar Kalia (The Guardian, The Observer, Jazzwise, DownBeat)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel, The Room (Real World)
  2. Meshell Ndegeocello, No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin (Blue Note)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt)
  4. Kamasi Washington, Fearless Movement (Young)
  5. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline)
  6. Malcolm Jiyane Tree-O, True Story (New Soil/Mushroom Hour)
  7. Sam Gendel & Sam Wilkes, The Doober (Leaving)
  8. Jasmine Myra, Rising (Gondwana)
  9. Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  10. Poeji, Nant (Squama)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)