The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Ballot 2025 Mid-Year
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Mark Kirschenmann, Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet With Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams) →
- Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
- Sons of Ra, Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound) →
- Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp, Realism (ESP-Disk) →
- Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation, This Time (Sunnyside) →
- Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
- The Quantum Blues Quartet, Quantum Blues (Ropeadope) →
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
- Ayumi Ishito, Roboquarians Vol. 2 (577) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Frank Zappa, Cheaper Than Cheep (1974, Zappa/UMe) →
- Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM) →
- Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →
- Ray Russell Quartet, The Complete Spontaneous Event: Live 1967-1969 (Jazz in Britain) →