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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Derk Richardson (The Absolute Sound)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
  2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  3. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  4. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  5. Sarah Wilson, Incandescence (Brass Tonic)
  6. Jacob Garchik, Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve)
  7. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)
  8. Guy Klucevsek & Volker Goetze, Little Big Top (Motéma '24)
  9. Ben Goldberg - Todd Sickafoose - Scott Amendola, Here to There (Secret Hatch '24)
  10. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  2. Pharaoh Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue)
  3. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid)
  4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance)
  5. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)