The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Past Polls Index
New Albums Rara Avis
Critics
Acquaro - CollinsConsidine - GeikenGottschalk - KennyKoblin - NilandOrlov - SteinSullivan - Yokoi

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

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J.D. Considine (DownBeat)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
  2. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
  3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  4. Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM) →
  5. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
  6. Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →
  7. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love) →
  8. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
  9. Emi Makabe, Echo (Sunnyside) →
  10. Ingrid Laubrock, Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. The Piano Choir, Handscapes (1972, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  2. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →
  3. Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun) →
  4. Charles Brackeen, Rhythm X (1968, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  5. Steve Lacy - Roswell Rudd - Kent Carter - Beaver Harris, Trickles (1976, Black Saint) →

 

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