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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Glenn Kenny (Some Came Running, RogerEbert.com, New York Times, X)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Beings, There Is a Garden (No Quarter)
  2. Sunny Five [Tim Berne-David Torn-Ches Smith-Devin Hoff-Marc Ducret], Candid (Intakt)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  4. Ethan Iverson, Technically Acceptable (Blue Note)
  5. Anthony Braxton, 10 Comp (Lorraine) 2022 (Braxton House)
  6. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform)
  7. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  8. Ambrose Akinmusire, Owl Song (Nonesuch '23)
  9. Carla Santana-José Lencastre-Maria do Mar-Gonçalo Almeida, Defiant Ilussion (A New Wave of Jazz)
  10. Paul Dunmall-Paul Rogers-Mark Sanders, Wildlife (Fundacja Słuchaj)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  3. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance)
  4. Gastr del Sol, We Have Dozens of Titles (1993-98, Drag City)
  5. Pat Smythe Quartet, New Dawn: Live 1973 (British Progressive Jazz)