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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Richard Williams (The Blue Moment)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)
  2. Michael Shrieve, Drums of Compassion (7D Media)
  3. Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace (Impulse!)
  4. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  5. Giovanni Guidi, A New Day (ECM)
  6. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note)
  7. Alexander Hawkins & Sofia Jernberg, Musho (Intakt)
  8. Kit Downes, Dr. Snap (Bimhuis)
  9. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  10. Cassie Kinoshi, Gratitude (International Anthem)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Art Tatum, Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings (Resonance)
  2. Cecil Taylor Unit, Live at Fat Tuesday's February 9, 1980 [First Visit] (1980, Ezz-Thetics)
  3. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  4. Tomasz Stanko Quartet, September Night (2004, ECM)
  5. Fingers, The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus (1979-93, Jazz in Britain)