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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Fay Victor, Herbie Nichols SUNG: Life Is Funny That Way (Tao Forms) →
  2. Charles Lloyd, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow (Blue Note) →
  3. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note) →
  4. Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble, Elegy for Thelonious (Sunnyside) →
  5. David Murray Quartet, Francesca (Intakt) →
  6. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook) →
  7. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!) →
  8. John Minnock, A Different Riff: Minnock Sings Shire (Dot Time) →
  9. Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto) →
  10. Alyssa Allgood, From Here (Next) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective) →
  2. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note) →
  3. Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, The Mighty Warriors: Live in Antwerp (1995, Elemental Music) →
  4. Joe Fonda, From the Source (1998, Fundacja Sluchaj '23) →
  5. Shelly Manne & His Men, Jazz From the Pacific Northwest (1958-66, Reel to Real) →