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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Tim Niland (Bluesky)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!)
  2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  3. Silke Eberhard Trio, Being-a-Ning (Intakt)
  4. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt)
  5. Rob Brown, Walkabout (Mahakala Music)
  6. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  7. Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic)
  8. Brom, Чёрная голова [Black Head] (Addicted Label)
  9. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
  10. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Mary Halvorson Quartet, John Zorn's Bagatelles: Vol. 1 (2019, Tzadik)
  2. Joe Henderson, Our Thing to In 'n Out Revisited (1963-64, Ezz-Thetics)
  3. Tim Berne's Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun)
  4. Albert Ayler Trio, Prophecy Live First Visit (1964, Ezz-Thetics)
  5. Paul Bley Trio, Floater & Syndrome: The Upright Piano Sessions Revisited (1962-63, Ezz-Thetics)