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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Pat Frisco (WHFR-FM [Dearborn, MI])

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt)
  2. Joe Fonda & Bass of Operation (Fundacja Słuchaj '24)
  3. Rob Brown, Walkabout (Mahakala Music)
  4. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
  5. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  6. Spindrift [Frank Paul Schubert - Dieter Manderscheid - Martin Blume], Trio Studies (Jazz Haus Musik)
  7. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!)
  8. Stephen Davis Unit, The Gleaming World (577)
  9. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  10. Michael Bisio, NuMBq (Mahakala Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Michael Gregory Jackson, Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, Moved-by-Sound)
  2. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt)
  3. Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps, Music Inc. (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  4. Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness)
  5. John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform)