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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Britt Robson (Minnpost, Bandcamp)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Damon Locks, List of Demands (International Anthem)
  2. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  3. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
  4. Cyrus Chestnut, Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote)
  5. Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind)
  6. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
  7. Skullcap, Snakes of Albuquerque (Cuneiform)
  8. The Fury, Live in Brooklyn (Giant Step Arts '24)
  9. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-)
  10. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)
  2. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24)
  3. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)