The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Past Polls Index
New Albums Rara Avis
Critics
Acquaro - CollinsConsidine - GeikenGottschalk - KennyKoblin - NilandOrlov - SteinSullivan - Yokoi

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

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Kurt Gottschalk (New York City Jazz Record, The Wire, WKCR)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Ben Lamar Gay, Yowzers (International Anthem) →
  2. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
  3. Damon Locks, List of Demands (International Anthem) →
  4. Brandon Lopez, Nada Sagrada (Relative Pitch) →
  5. Alex Paxton, Delicious (New Amsterdam) →
  6. Potsa Lotsa XL, Amoeba's Dance (Trouble in the East) →
  7. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love) →
  8. Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton, Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk) →
  9. Raed Yassin, Phantom Orchestra (Morphine) →
  10. Adrian Younge, Something About April III (Jazz Is Dead) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve) →
  2. Fred Frith & Shelley Burgon, The Life and Behavior (2002-05, Relative Pitch) →
  3. Sun Ra, On Jupiter (1979, Saturn/Strut) →

 

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