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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Geoffrey Himes (JazzTimes, Chamber Music)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)
  2. Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM)
  3. Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho)
  4. Dayna Stephens, Hopium (Contagious Music)
  5. Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note)
  6. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
  7. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
  8. Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation, This Time (Sunnyside)
  9. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  10. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  2. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM)
  3. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24)
  4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance)
  5. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)