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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Dan Buskirk (WPRB [Princeton], Fun2Know Podcast)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Joe Chambers - Kevin Diehl - Chad Taylor, Onilu (Eremite)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  4. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  5. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
  6. Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories)
  7. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Dream a Dream (Libra)
  8. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!)
  9. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  10. Daniel Carter & Ayumi Ishito, Endless Season (577)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Rashied Ali & Leroy Jenkins, Swift Are the Winds of Life [Expanded Edition] (1975, Survival)
  2. Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve)
  3. Vince Guaraldi, It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown! (Lee Mendelson Film Productions)
  4. Sun Ra, Stray Voltage (1970s-80s, Modern Harmonic)
  5. 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.