The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Past Polls Index
New Albums Rara Avis
Critics
Acquaro - CollinsConsidine - GeikenGottschalk - KennyKoblin - NilandOrlov - SteinSullivan - Yokoi

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

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Stewart Smith (The Wire, We Jazz, Bandcamp Daily, The Quietus)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
  2. Ben Lamar Gay, Yowzers (International Anthem) →
  3. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
  4. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
  5. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
  6. Laura Cocks, FATHM (Relative Pitch/Out of Our Heads) →
  7. Pat Thomas, The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt) →
  8. Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton, Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk) →
  9. Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) →
  10. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Larry Stabbins - Keith Tippett - Louis Moholo-Moholo, Live in Foggia (1985, Ogun) →
  2. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
  3. To Live and Shave in L.A., The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg (1995-2000, Palilia) →

 

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