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)