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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Lee Rice Epstein (Free Jazz Collective, But does it swing?)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast) →
  2. Ra Bishop [Avreeayl Ra & Jeb Bishop], Of the Essence (Amalgam) →
  3. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
  4. Sloth Racket, Ten Years of Live Sloths (Luminous Label) →
  5. Juno 3 [Han-earl Park - Lara Jones - Pat Thomas], Proxemics (Buster and Friends) →
  6. Satoko Fujii GEN, Altitude 1100 Meters (Libra) →
  7. Matt Mitchell, Sacrosancticity (Obliquity) →
  8. Will Mason Quartet, Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus) →
  9. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
  10. Michael Sarian, Esquina (Greenleaf Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
  2. Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun) →
  3. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
  4. Steve Lacy Three, Live Lugano 1984 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics) →
  5. Manfred Schoof Ochestra, European Echoes (1969, FMP) →