The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Ballot 2025 Mid-Year
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
- Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Inner Spaces (Kuroneko) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
- The Quantum Blues Quartet, Quantum Blues (Ropeadope) →
- Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
- Resavoir & Matt Gold, Horizon (International Anthem) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain: Esoteric, Modal, and Progressive Jazz From Central and Eastern Europe (1962-1988) (Jazzman) →
- Sun Ra, Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic) →
- Pharaoh Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) →
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- William Hooker, A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search) →