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) →