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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Richard Gehr (Relix)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Mark Kirschenmann, Tonics: 7 Melodies for Trumpet With Bamboo Mouthpipe (Infrequent Seams)
  2. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head)
  3. Sons of Ra, Standard Deviation (Free Electric Sound)
  4. Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp, Realism (ESP-Disk)
  5. Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation, This Time (Sunnyside)
  6. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
  7. The Quantum Blues Quartet, Quantum Blues (Ropeadope)
  8. Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks)
  9. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  10. Ayumi Ishito, Roboquarians Vol. 2 (577)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Frank Zappa, Cheaper Than Cheep (1974, Zappa/UMe)
  2. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  3. Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM)
  4. Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut)
  5. Ray Russell Quartet, The Complete Spontaneous Event: Live 1967-1969 (Jazz in Britain)