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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Jim Hynes (Glide, PostGenre, Making a Scene!)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
  2. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
  3. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
  4. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
  5. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
  6. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
  7. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
  8. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  9. The Quantum Blues Quartet, Quantum Blues (Ropeadope) →
  10. Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
  2. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  3. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
  4. Pharaoh Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) →
  5. Charlie Rouse, Two Is One (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →

 

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