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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

James Koblin (The Necessary Blues, WVKR 91.3FM [Vassar College])

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  3. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
  4. John Dikeman - Sun-Mi Hong - Aaron Lumley - Marta Warelis, Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch)
  5. Pat Thomas, The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt)
  6. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head)
  7. Will Mason Quartet, Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus)
  8. Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation, This Time (Sunnyside)
  9. Satoko Fujii This Is It!, Message (Libra)
  10. Joris Roelofs - Guus Janssen - Han Bennink, Rite of Spring (ICP)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  2. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  3. Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness)
  4. Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness)
  5. Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun)