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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Jim Hynes (Glide, Making a Scene!)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  2. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81)
  3. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  4. Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note)
  5. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  6. Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM)
  7. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
  8. Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk)
  9. Brandon Ross Phantom Station, Off the End (Sunnyside)
  10. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  3. Phil Haynes' 4 Horns and What?, The Complete American Recordings (1989-95, Corner Store Jazz)
  4. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  5. Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music)