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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Tom Hull (Tom Hull - On the Web)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  2. Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic)
  3. Rodrigo Amado & Chris Corsano, The Healing: Live at ZDB (European Echoes)
  4. Deepstaria Enigmatica, The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk)
  5. Larry Ochs - Joe Morris - Charles Downs, Every Day → All the Way (ESP-Disk)
  6. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-)
  7. Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band, What Is? (self-released)
  8. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)
  9. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Dream a Dream (Libra)
  10. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin)
  2. Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness)
  3. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  4. Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (The Village)
  5. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance)

Note: See also The Best Jazz of 2025.