The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Ballot 2025 Mid-Year
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Jane Ira Bloom, Songs in Space (Outline) →
- Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Andy Biskin - Peter Hess - Mike McGinniss - Sam Sadigursky, Reed Basket () →
- Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
- Joe Chambers - Kevin Diehl - Chad Taylor, Onilu (Eremite) →
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
