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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Derk Richardson (The Absolute Sound, KPFA 94.1 FM [Berkeley])

NEW RELEASES

  1. Zen Widow, IV (From One Dark Age to Another) (Objet-a '23)
  2. Kaze, Unwritten (Circum/Libra)
  3. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
  4. Robin Holcomb, One Way or Another, Vol. 2 (Westerlies)
  5. The London Experimental Ensemble With Richard Thompson, Wesley Stace, Sivert Hayem, Marissa Nadler and Gina Fergione, Child Ballads: The Final Six (Don Giovanni '23)
  6. Modney, Ascending Primes (Pyroclastic)
  7. Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey, Archaisms II (Meta)
  8. Anthony Pirog, The Nepenthe Series Vol. 1 (Otherly Love '23)
  9. Ryan Truesdell, Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions (ArtistShare)
  10. Michael Shrieve, Drums of Compassion (7D Media)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  2. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music)
  3. Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings (Resonance)
  4. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance)
  5. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective)