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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Sergio Piccirilli (El Intruso)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  2. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
  3. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
  4. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  5. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  6. Tropos, Switches (Endectomorph Music)
  7. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  8. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
  9. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)
  10. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  3. Thelonious Monk, With Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics)
  4. Misha Mengelberg & Sabu Toyozumi, The Analects of Confucius (2000, NoBusiness)
  5. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance)