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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Brooks Geiken (Arts Fuse, LatinJazzNet)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho)
  2. John Santos Sextet & Friends, Horizontes (Machete)
  3. Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project, Mi Hogar II (self-released)
  4. Alex "Apolo" Ayala & the Bámbula Project, Afro Puerto Rican Jazz (PMC/Miel Music)
  5. Albita & Chucho Valdés, Masters of Our Roots (InnerCat Entertainment)
  6. Unity Quartet [Helio Alves - Guilherme Monteiro - Gili Lopes - Alex Kautz], Samba of Sorts (Sunnyside)
  7. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
  8. Camila Meza, Portal (GroundUP Music)
  9. Entre Amigos, Magpie: The Music of Joe Clark (Entre Amigos)
  10. Alex McLaughlin, A Brand New State (self-released)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Clifford Jordan, Glass Bead Games (1973, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  3. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance)
  4. Billy Harper, Capra Black (1973, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  5. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)