The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year
Ballot 2025 Mid-Year
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Pat Thomas, The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir (Otoroku '24) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
- Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
- Marty Ehrlich Trio Exaltation, This Time (Sunnyside) →
- Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
- Mats Gustafsson - Ken Vandermark - Tomeka Reid - Chad Taylor, Pivot (Silkheart) →
- Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM) →
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
- Hearts & Minds, Illuminescence (Astral Spirits) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Ray Russell Quartet, The Complete Spontaneous Event: Live 1967-1969 (Jazz in Britain) →
- Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) →
- Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
- Ellery Eskelin, Trio New York About (or On) First Visit (2011-13, Ezz-Thetics) →