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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Phil Overeem (Living to Listen)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, Four Guitars Live (Palilalia)
  2. Miha Gantar, New York City (Clean Feed)
  3. Amaro Freitas, Y'Y (Psychic Hotline)
  4. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Jet Black (Libra)
  5. QOW Trio, The Hold Up (Ubuntu Music)
  6. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms)
  7. Acceleration Due to Gravity, Jonesville: Music by and for Sam Jones (Hot Cup)
  8. Alan Braufman, Infinite Love Infinite Tears (Valley of Search)
  9. Kronos Quartet, Outer Spaceways Incorporated (Red Hot Org)
  10. James Carter, Un (Unaccompanied Baritone Saxophone) (J.M.I.)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Sun Ra, Excelsior Mill (1984, Sundazed/Modern Harmonic)
  3. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  4. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance)
  5. Christer Bothén Featuring Bolon Bata, Trancedance [40th Anniversary Edition] (1984, Black Truffle)