The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Ballot 2025 Mid-Year
Gary Finney (WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], Jazz Buffalo)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
- Michael Dease, City Life: Music of Greg Hill (Origin) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
- Benjamin Lackner, Spindrift (ECM) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
- James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) →
Note: Voter offered Debut votes for: Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note); Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (self-released)