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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Chris Monsen (Musikkmagasinet [Klassekampen], Jazznytt, Chris Monsen's Listening Booth)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
  2. Christer Bothén 3, L'Invisible (Thanatosis) →
  3. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
  4. Luke Stewart Silt Rembrance Ensemble, The Order (Cuneiform) →
  5. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
  6. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
  7. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
  8. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
  9. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being-a-Ning (Intakt) →
  10. Sverre Sæbo Quintet, If, However, You Have Not Lost Your Self Control (SauaJazz) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
  2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
  3. Art Pepper, An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1980, Elemental Music) →
  4. Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) →
  5. John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) →