The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Ballot 2025 Mid-Year
Dan Buskirk (WPRB [Princeton], Fun2Know Podcast)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Joe Chambers - Kevin Diehl - Chad Taylor, Onilu (Eremite) →
- James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
- Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
- Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →
- Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Dream a Dream (Libra) →
- David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
- Daniel Carter & Ayumi Ishito, Endless Season (577) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Rashied Ali & Leroy Jenkins, Swift Are the Winds of Life [Expanded Edition] (1975, Survival) →
- Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve) →
- Vince Guaraldi, It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown! (Lee Mendelson Film Productions) →
- Sun Ra, Stray Voltage (1970s-80s, Modern Harmonic) →
- William Hooker, A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search) →
Note: Ballot also mentions Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) in the margin, but album wasn't counted.