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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Joe Bebco (The Syncopated Times)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds & Catherine Russell, Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay)
  2. Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band, Treasury Volume 2 (Turtle Bay)
  3. Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys, Mutiny in the Parlor (self-released)
  4. Eight Dice Cloth, The Songs and Arrangements of Armand J. Piron (self-released)
  5. Jim Kweskin, Doing Things Right (Jalopy)
  6. Nanna Carling, Melodies for Two (The End)
  7. Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, Vol. 33: Walkin' Through the Streets (self-released)
  8. Dawn Patrol Jazz Band, A Tribute to Benny Strickler and the Yerba Buena Jazz Band (self-released)
  9. Meryl Zimmerman, Easy to Love (self-released '24)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Red Norvo, World Broadcast Recordings (1944-45, Circle/Jazzology)
  2. Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve)