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)