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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Jeff Cebulski (New York City Jazz Record, Chicago Jazz)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  3. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  4. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  5. Michael Dease, City Life: Music of Greg Hill (Origin)
  6. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)
  7. Charlie Kohlhase's Explorerer Club, A Second Life (Mandorla Music)
  8. Florian Arbenz - Michael Arbenz - Ron Carter, The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs. Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer)
  9. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  10. Chicago Jazz Orchestra, More Amor: A Tribute to Wes Montgomery (Chicago Jazz Orchestra)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Vince Guaraldi Trio, Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown (1964, Craft)
  2. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  3. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM)
  4. Charlie Rouse, Two Is One (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  5. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)