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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Laurence Donohue-Greene (The New York City Jazz Record)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  2. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
  3. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt)
  4. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  5. Pitch, Rhythm and Consciousness, Sextet (Reva)
  6. Noah Preminger, Ballads (Chill Tone)
  7. Stefan Schultze - Peter Ehwald - Tom Rainey, Public Radio (Jazzwerkstatt)
  8. Eva Novoa, Novoa - Kamaguchi - Cleaver Trio Volume 2 (577)
  9. Larry Ochs - Joe Morris - Charles Downs, Every Day → All the Way (ESP-Disk)
  10. Sophie Agnel & John Butcher, Rare (Les Disques Victo)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt)
  2. Ellery Eskelin, Trio New York About (or On) First Visit (2011-13, Ezz-Thetics)
  3. Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside)
  4. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  5. Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve)