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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Annie Parnell (VPM Music [NPR/Richmond, VA])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Kamasi Washington, Fearless Movement (Young)
  2. Nduduzo Makhathini, Unomkhubulwane (Blue Note)
  3. Joel Ross, Nublues (Blue Note)
  4. Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve)
  5. Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note)
  6. Abdullah Ibrahim, 3 (Gearbox)
  7. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  8. Jasmine Myra, Rising (Gondwana)
  9. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note)
  10. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. Sun Ra & His Arkestra, Pink Elephants on Parade (1985-90, Modern Harmonic)
  3. Louis Armstrong, Louis in London (1968, Verve)
  4. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)