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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David Kunian (Offbeat, WWOZ-FM [New Orleans], New Orleans Jazz Museum)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
  2. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
  3. Kyle Roussel, Church of New Orleans (self-released) →
  4. Freedom Art Quartet, First Dance (self-released) →
  5. Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) →
  6. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM) →
  7. Skerik - Brian Haas - James Singleton - Simon Lott, Compersion Quartet (Royal Potato Family '24) →
  8. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
  9. Steve Lands, Rearranging the Planets (self-released) →
  10. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →
  2. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
  3. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
  4. Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →
  5. David "Fathead" Newman - Ellis Marsalis - Cornell Dupree, Return to the Wide Open Spaces (1990, Amazing/Steady Boy) →

 

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