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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Glenn Kenny (Some Came Running, RogerEbert.com, New York Times)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret '24)
  2. John Zorn, New Masada Quartet, Volume 3: Live at Roulette (Tzadik '24)
  3. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)
  4. Sophie Agnel & John Butcher, Rare (Les Disques Victo)
  5. Roscoe Mitchell, Gratitude: One Head Four People (Wide Hive)
  6. The Quantum Blues Quartet, Quantum Blues (Ropeadope)
  7. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
  8. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
  9. Dave Liebman - Billy Hart - Adam Rudolph, Beingness (Meta)
  10. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Frank Zappa, Cheaper Than Cheep (1974, Zappa/UMe)
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  3. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance)
  4. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)
  5. Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian, The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn (1992, ECM '24)