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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Allen Michie (The Arts Fuse)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble, Griot Songs (Omar Thomas Music) →
  2. Jeremy Pelt, Woven (HighNote) →
  3. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
  4. Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note) →
  5. Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar) →
  6. Marius Neset, Cabaret (ACT Music) →
  7. Jake Hertzog, Ozark Concerto (Zoho) →
  8. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
  9. Knats, Knats (Gearbox) →
  10. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
  2. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  3. Kenny Wheeler, The Kenny Wheeler Big Band & Friends, Vol. 2 (1973-74, British Progressive Jazz) →
  4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
  5. Wes Montgomery With the Wynton Kelly Trio, Smokin' in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1966, Resonance) →

 

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