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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Rob Shepherd (PostGenre Media)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  2. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-)
  4. Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Inner Spaces (Kuroneko)
  5. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  6. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
  7. The Quantum Blues Quartet, Quantum Blues (Ropeadope)
  8. Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers)
  9. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  10. Resavoir & Matt Gold, Horizon (International Anthem)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain: Esoteric, Modal, and Progressive Jazz From Central and Eastern Europe (1962-1988) (Jazzman)
  2. Sun Ra, Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic)
  3. Pharaoh Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue)
  4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance)
  5. William Hooker, A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search)