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) →