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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

John Frederick Moore (Jazziz)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
  3. Damon Locks, List of Demands (International Anthem) →
  4. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
  5. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
  6. Nicole Glover, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant) →
  7. Sasha Berliner, Fantôme (Outside In Music) →
  8. Kaisa's Machine, Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music) →
  9. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
  10. Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok, Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Strata-East: The Legacy Begins (1968-75, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →