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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Michael Toland (The Big Takeover, The Austin Chronicle)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  2. Mary Halvorson, Cloudward (Nonesuch)
  3. Frank London/The Elders, Spirit Stronger Than Blood (ESP-Disk)
  4. Ghost Trees, Intercept Method (self-released)
  5. John Escreet, The Epicenter of Your Dreams (Blue Room Music)
  6. Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt)
  7. Oded Tzur, My Prophet (ECM)
  8. Melissa Aldana, Echoes of the Inner Prophet (Blue Note)
  9. The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis (Impulse!)
  10. Amanda Gardier, Auteur (Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson) (self-released)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. John Abercrombie-Dave Holland-Jack DeJohnette, Gateway (1975, ECM)
  2. Phil Ranelin, The Found Tapes: 1968-1971 (ORG Music)
  3. Pat Metheny, Bright Size Life (1975, ECM)
  4. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective)
  5. The John Wright Trio, South Side Soul (1960, Craft)