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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Stewart Smith (The Wire, We Jazz, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus)

NEW RELEASES

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret)
  2. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  3. Jennifer Walshe & Tony Conrad, In the Merry Month of May (Blue Chopsticks)
  4. Kavain Wayne Space & XT, Yesyespeakersyes (Feedback Moves)
  5. Lisa Ullén, Heirloom (Fönstret)
  6. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms)
  7. Tomeka Reid Quartet, 3+3 (Cuneiform)
  8. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt)
  9. Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey, Archaisms II (Meta)
  10. Adam Goldfarb, Fire Lapping at the Creek (Infrequent Seams)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Gayle-Milford Graves-William Parker, WEBO (1991, Black Editions Archive)
  2. Tony Oxley, Angular Apron (1992, Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  3. Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata, Trancedance [40th Anniversary Edition] (1984, Black Truffle)
  4. Alan Tomlinson Trio, Loft 1993 (Scatter Archive)
  5. Louis Moholo-Moholo's Viva-La-Black (1988, Ogun)