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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James Hale (DownBeat, SoundStageXperience.com)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  2. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
  3. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
  4. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
  5. Kneebody, Reach (GroundUP Music) →
  6. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
  7. Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note) →
  8. Andrew Rathbun, Lost in the Shadows (SteepleChase) →
  9. Jeremy Pelt, Woven (HighNote) →
  10. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
  2. Joe Henderson, Multiple (1973, Craft) →
  3. Michel Petrucciani Trio, Jazz Club Montmartre (1988, Storyville '24) →
  4. Jaki Byard, Blues for Smoke (1960, Candid) →
  5. Joe Pass, Virtuoso (1973, Craft) →

 

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