The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Ballot 2025 Mid-Year
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
- Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) →
- Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano, The Healing: Live at ZDB (European Echoes) →
- Deepstaria Enigmatica, The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk) →
- Larry Ochs - Joe Morris - Charles Downs, Every Day → All the Way (ESP-Disk) →
- James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
- Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band, What Is? (self-released) →
- Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
- Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Dream a Dream (Libra) →
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) →
- Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (The Village) →
- Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
Note: See also The Best Jazz of 2025.
