The 19th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2024 Mid-Year
The Critics
- Karl Ackermann: All About Jazz, Chicago Jazz Magazine
- Paul Acquaro: Free Jazz Collective, Jazzpodium
- Scott Albin: Amazon.com
- Hrayr Attarian: All About Jazz, Jazziz
- Chris Barton: Los Angeles Times, DownBeat
- Joe Bebco: The Syncopated Times
- Dan Bilawsky: All About Jazz, Dark Blue Notes, New York City Jazz Record
- Philip Booth: Jazziz, Jazzlands
- Mike Borella: Avant Music News
- Stuart Broomer: Free Jazz Collective, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, The Whole Note
- Bill Brownlee: Plastic Sax
- Dan Buskirk: WPRB [Princeton], Fun2Know Podcast
- Jeff Cebulski: New York City Jazz Record, Chicago Jazz
- John Chacona: All About Jazz, Postgenre Media, Let's Call This
- Gary Chapin: Free Jazz Collective
- J.D. Considine: DownBeat
- Mark Corroto: All About Jazz
- Michael Coyle: WRCU [Colgate University]
- David Cristol: Free Jazz Collective, Citizen Jazz
- Steve Dollar: freelance
- Laurence Donohue-Greene: The New York City Jazz Record
- Ken Dryden: New York City Jazz Record, Hot House, Timeless Jazz [WUTC-FM], All About Jazz
- Chuck Eddy: Eliminated for Reasons of Space, Spin, Napster
- Lee Rice Epstein: Free Jazz Collective, But does it swing?
- Steve Feeney: ArtsFuse, Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
- Gary Finney: WQLN NPR [Eric, PA]
- Filipe Freitas: JazzTrail
- Pat Frisco: WHFR-FM [Dearborn, MI]
- Ana Gavrilovska: Uncut, Maggot Brain, Aquarium Drunkard
- Richard Gehr: Relix, Maggot Brain, Bandcamp
- Kurt Gottschalk: New York City Jazz Record, The Wire, WKCR
- Stephen Graham: marlbank
- Jason Gross: Perfect Sound Forever
- James Hale: DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com
- Eyal Hareuveni: Free Jazz Blog, Salt Peanuts
- Chris Heim: KMUW-FM [Wichita, KS]
- Andrey Henkin: New York Times, WeJazz, JazzWise, Stereophile, The Brooklyn Rail, NPR; Jazz Passings
- Geoffrey Himes: Paste, Chamber Music
- Rob Hoff: WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], WETF [South Bend, IN], JazzErie
- Larry Hollis: Cadence
- Tom Hull: tomhull.com
- Jim Hynes: Glide, Making a Scene!
- Martin Johnson: Wall Street Journal, NPR, Bandcamp
- T.R. Johnson: WWOZ 98.7 FM [New Orleans]
- Sanford Josephson: Jersey Jazz Magazine
- Ammar Kalia: The Guardian, The Observer, Jazzwise, DownBeat
- Richard B. Kamins: Step Tempest, WESU-FM [Middletown CT]
- George Kanzler: Hot House, New York City Jazz Record
- Fred Kaplan: Slate, Tracking Angle
- Yoshi Kato: DownBeat, San Francisco Classical Voice, San Francisco Chronicle
- Glenn Kenny: Some Came Running, RogerEbert.com, New York Times, X
- James Koblin: The Necessary Blues
- Elzy Kolb: freelance
- Will Layman: PopMatters
- Lance Liddle: Bebop Spoken Here
- Suzanne Lorge: DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record
- Brad Luen: Semipop Life
- Paul Medrano: Best of Jazz
- Allen Michie: The Arts Fuse
- Milo Miles: The Arts Fuse, Miles to Go
- Roz Milner: Dusted, Milner on Music
- Rick Mitchell: Jazz in the New Millennium [book/radio program]
- Chris Monsen: Musikkmagasinet [Klassekampen], Jazznytt, Chris Monsen's Listening Booth
- John Frederick Moore: Jazziz
- Greg Morton: freelance
- Stuart Nicholson: Jazzwise
- Fotis Nikolakopoulos: Free Jazz Collective
- Tim Niland: freelance social media microblogger: X, Facebook
- Phil Overeem: Living to Listen
- Annie Parnell: VPM Music [NPR/Richmond, VA]
- Sergio Piccirilli: El Intruso
- Derk Richardson: The Absolute Sound, KPFA 94.1 FM [Berkeley]
- Britt Robson: Bandcamp, Minnpost
- Gene Seymour: The Nation, CNN.com
- Rob Shepherd: PostGenre Media
- Stewart Smith: The Wire, We Jazz, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus
- Jeffrey St. Clair: Counterpunch: Sound Grammar
- Mark Sullivan: All About Jazz
- Dave Sumner: Bandcamp, Bird Is the Worm
- Derek Taylor: Dusted
- Michael Toland: The Big Takeover, The Austin Chronicle
- Ludwig vanTrikt: Cadence
- Fabricio Vieira: FreeForm, FreeJazz
- Philip Watson: Irish Times, Irish Examiner
- Ken Waxman: Jazz Word
- Jason Weiss: The Wire, Le Ventre et l'Oreille
- Ken Weiss: Cadence
- Michael J. West: DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post
- Richard Williams: The Blue Moment
- Jerome Wilson: All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax
Total: 90 voters.