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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Mark Lomanno (The Rhythm of Study, University of Miami)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  2. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
  3. Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast)
  4. Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Inner Spaces (Kuroneko)
  5. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)
  6. Kandace Springs, Lady in Satin (SRP)
  7. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  8. Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band, La Fleure De Cayenne (Sunnyside)
  9. John Sturino, Blow Globe (Outside In Music)
  10. Hiromi's Sonicwonder, Out There (Telarc)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin)
  2. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt)
  3. Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (Candid)
  4. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  5. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)