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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Rob Shepherd (PostGenre Media)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  2. Brandon Ross Phantom Station, Off the End (Sunnyside)
  3. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline)
  4. David Leon, Bird's Eye (Pyroclastic)
  5. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  6. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  7. Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, The Almighty (Division 81)
  8. Kenny Garrett & Svoy, Who Killed AI? (Mack Avenue)
  9. Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search)
  10. Julian Lage, Speak to Me (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. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective)
  4. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  5. Yusef Lateef, Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert From Avignon (1972, Elemental Music)