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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Lance Liddle (Bebop Spoken Here)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork)
  2. Spike Wilner Trio Contrafactus, The Children & the Warlock (Cellar Music Group)
  3. Georgia Mancio & Alan Broadbent, A Story Left Untold (Roomspin)
  4. Diva Jazz Orchestra, A Celebration of Maurice Hines: Tappin' Thru Life (self-released)
  5. Leon Anderson, Live at Snug Harbor (Outside In Music)
  6. Noah Preminger, Ballads (Chill Tone)
  7. Kandace Springs, Lady in Satin (SRP)
  8. Michael Buckley, Ebb and Flow (Livia)
  9. Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist, At Home (Turtle Bay)
  10. Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Louis Stewart, I Thought About You (1977, Livia)
  2. Nancy Harrow, Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (1960, Candid)
  3. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance)
  5. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)

Note: Also see Best jazz of 2025 at the half way point.