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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Bret Saunders (Denver Post, KBCO-FM [Denver])

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
  2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
  3. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
  4. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
  5. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
  6. Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp, Realism (ESP-Disk) →
  7. Kim Jung Jae, Shamanism (Relative Pitch) →
  8. Ava Mendoza - Gabby Fluke-Mogul - Carolina Pérez, Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) →
  9. Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) →
  10. Mark Masters Ensemble, Sam Rivers 100 (Capri) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →
  2. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
  3. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
  4. Pharaoh Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) →
  5. Sun Ra, Stray Voltage (1970s-80s, Modern Harmonic) →

 

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