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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

C. Andrew Hovan (All About Jazz, DownBeat)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Jordan VanHemert, Survival of the Fittest (Origin)
  2. Altin Sencalar, Unleashed (Posi-Tone)
  3. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork)
  4. Renee Rosnes, Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions '24)
  5. Eric Scott Reed, Out Late (Smoke Sessions)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Kenny Burrell With Art Blakey, On View at the Five Spot Café: The Complete Masters (1959, Blue Note)
  2. Jack Wilkins, Opal (1983, CTI/King Japan)
  3. The Jazz Crusaders, Freedom Sound (1961, Blue Note)
  4. Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Himself (1957, Craft)
  5. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid)