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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

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)