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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Ludwig vanTrikt (Cadence)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
  2. Something Blue, In the Beginning (Posi-Tone)
  3. Mu Quintet, Enos (Jazz Aggression)
  4. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  5. Danny Grissett, Travelogue (Savant)
  6. Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks)
  7. Marcin Masecki Trio, Monk (BMC)
  8. Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project, Mi Hogar II (self-released)
  9. Ingi Bjarni, Hope (Losen)
  10. Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots (Culture Shock)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Clifford Jordan Big Band, Play What You Feel (1990, Mapleshade/P-Vine)
  2. Freddie Hubbard, Here to Stay (1962, Blue Note)
  3. Enrico Rava, Il Giro Del Giorno in Mondi 80 (1972, Eargong)
  4. Sun Ra, On Jupiter (1979, Saturn/Strut)
  5. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)