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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

John Chacona (All About Jazz, Postgenre Media, Let's Call This)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  2. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
  3. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  4. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
  5. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
  6. Noah Preminger, Ballads (Chill Tone)
  7. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork)
  8. Ted Rosenthal Trio, High Standards (TMR Music)
  9. Jeong Lim Yang, Synchronicity (Sunnyside)
  10. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance)
  2. Ryan Truesdell, Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music)
  3. Wes Montgomery, The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960, Craft)