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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Bill Brownlee (Plastic Sax)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)
  2. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  3. Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note)
  4. Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM)
  5. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love)
  6. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)
  7. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt)
  8. Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar)
  9. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-)
  10. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt)
  2. Art Pepper, Geneva 1980 (Omnivore)
  3. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  4. Sun Ra, Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic)
  5. John Hicks, Steadfast (1975, Strata-East/Mack Avneue)