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

Ballot 2024 Mid-Year

Philip Watson (Irish Times, Irish Examiner)

NEW RELEASES

  1. Arooj Aftab, Night Reign (Verve)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Transfiguration (Intakt)
  3. Ches Smith, Laugh Ash (Pyroclastic)
  4. Julian Lage, Speak to Me (Blue Note)
  5. Matt Wilson's Good Trouble (Palmetto)
  6. Bill Frisell, Orchestras (Blue Note)
  7. Vijay Iyer, Compassion (ECM)
  8. Trish Clowes & Ross Stanley, Journey to Where (Stoney Lane)
  9. Dave Douglas, Gifts (Greenleaf Music)
  10. Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens (Red Hook)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Ron Miles, Old Main Chapel (2011, Blue Note)
  2. Alice Coltrane, The Carnegie Hall Concert (1971, Impulse!)
  3. Kenny Wheeler, Angel Song (1996, ECM)
  4. Louis Armstrong, Louis in London (1968, Verve)
  5. Sun Ra, At the Showcase: Live in Chicago 1976-1977 (Jazz Detective)