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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Derek Taylor (Dusted)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku '24)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  3. Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku)
  4. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  5. Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation, This Time (Sunnyside)
  6. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
  7. Mats Gustafsson - Ken Vandermark - Tomeka Reid - Chad Taylor, Pivot (Silkheart)
  8. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)
  9. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
  10. Hearts & Minds, Illuminescence (Astral Spirits)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Ray Russell Quartet, The Complete Spontaneous Event: Live 1967-1969 (Jazz in Britain)
  2. Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness)
  3. Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut)
  4. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)
  5. Ellery Eskelin, Trio New York About (or On) First Visit (2011-13, Ezz-Thetics)