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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Raul da Gama (JazzdaGama, Toronto Cultural Media (Latin Jazz Network, World Music Report, That Canadian Magazine), The WholeNote, Hot House Jazz)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Anthony Braxton, Trillium X (PMP)
  2. Ayelet Rose Gottlieb & Dream Keepers, Dust (Corne de Brume)
  3. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  4. Morley, Follow the Sound (self-released '24)
  5. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  7. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt)
  8. Christer Bothén 3, L'Invisible (Thanatosis)
  9. Ryan Truesdell, Gil Evans Project Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music)
  10. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  2. James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin)
  3. Thelonious Monk, With Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics)
  4. Joe Pass, Virtuoso (1973, Craft)
  5. Wes Montgomery, The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960, Craft)