Sound Grammar: The Best Jazz Records of the Year So Far

Tyshawn Sorey, Vijay Iyer and Linda May Han Oh. Photo: ECM.

I was invited by Tom Hull to participate in the Francis Davis Jazz Critics mid-year poll for 2024. Here are my favorite recordings for the year to date, both new releases and reissues/archival albums. You can see the poll results here.

New Releases

1. Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey: Compassion (ECM)

2. Julian Lage: Speak to Me (Blue Note)

3. Wadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers: Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir...