The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Paul Acquaro (Free Jazz Collective, Jazz Podium)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
  2. Edition Redux [Ken Vandermark], Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic)
  3. John Dikeman - Sun-Mi Hong - Aaron Lumley - Marta Warelis, Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch)
  4. Harri Sjöström, SoundScapes #4 Festival Berlin 2023 (Fundacja Słuchaj)
  5. Elia Aregger Trio, Live (Unit)
  6. Camila Nebbia - Dietrich Eichmann - John Hughes - Jeff Arnal, Chrononaux (Generate '24)
  7. Marc Ribot, Map of a Blue City (New West)
  8. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  9. Hélène Labarrière, Puzzle (Jazzdor)
  10. Felix Henkelhausen Quintet, The Excruciating Pain of Boredom (self-released)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness)
  2. Peter Brötzmann Trio, Hurricane (2015, Old Heaven Books)
  3. Jean-Jacques Avenel & Daunik Lazro, Duo: Bibliothèque De Massy 13 Novembre 1980 (Fou '24)
  4. Noah Howard Quartet, Schizophrenic Blues: Live in Berlin (1977, Cien Fuegos)
  5. Noah Howard Group, Berlin Concert (1975, Cien Fuegos)