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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Suzanne Lorge (DownBeat, New York City Jazz Record)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork)
  2. Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers)
  3. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)
  4. Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note)
  5. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
  6. Ivo Perelman & Tyshawn Sorey, Parallel Aesthetics (Fundacja Słuchaj)
  7. Danilo Pérez & Bohlusän Big Band, Lumen (Prophone '24)
  8. Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note)
  9. Cyrus Chestnut, Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote)
  10. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Paul Bley Trio, Floater & Syndrome: The Upright Piano Sessions Revisited (1962-63, Ezz-Thetics)
  2. Thelonious Monk, With Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics)
  3. Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside)
  4. Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve)
  5. Chick Corea, Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM)