The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Past Polls Index
New Albums Rara Avis
Critics
Acquaro - CollinsConsidine - GeikenGottschalk - KennyKoblin - NilandOrlov - SteinSullivan - Yokoi

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

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Devin Leonard (Bloomberg News)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
  2. Peter Bernstein, Better Angels (Smoke Sessions '24) →
  3. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
  4. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
  5. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note '24) →
  6. Steve Coleman and Five Elements, PolyTropos/Of Many Turns (Pi '24) →
  7. Caroline Davis, Portals Vol. 2: Returning (Intakt '24) →
  8. Julian Shore Trio, Sub Rosa (Chill Tone) →
  9. M.T.B. [Brad Mehldau - Mark Turner - Peter Bernstein], Solid Jackson (Criss Cross Jazz '24) →
  10. Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →
  2. Bobby Hutcherson, Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 (Mosaic '24) →
  3. David Binney, Grains of Light (2009-13, Mythology) →
  4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
  5. Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM) →

 

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