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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Michael J. West (DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  2. Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine)
  3. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  4. Gregory Tardy, In His Timing (WJ3 '23)
  5. Jeremy Pelt, Tomorrow's Another Day (HighNote)
  6. Amanda Whiting, The Liminality of Her (First Word)
  7. Matthew Shipp Trio, New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk)
  8. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt)
  9. Muriel Grossmann, Devotion (Third Man '23)
  10. divr, Is This Water (We Jazz)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Cannonball Adderley, Burnin' in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969 (Elemental Music)
  3. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  4. Jessica Williams, Orgonomic Muic (1981, Sundazed)
  5. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)