The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Ballot 2025 Mid-Year
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
- Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
- Tropos, Switches (Endectomorph Music) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Thelonious Monk, With Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) →
- Misha Mengelberg & Sabu Toyozumi, The Analects of Confucius (2000, NoBusiness) →
- Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →