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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Jason Weiss (The Wire, Le Ventre et l'Oreille)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
  2. Claude Tchamitchian Quartet, Vortice (Emouvance)
  3. GPS, Directions + Destinations (577)
  4. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
  5. Antonio Borghini & Banquet of Consequences, Resta Chi Va (We Insist!)
  6. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi)
  7. Kristoff K.Roll, Les Ombres De La Nuit (Mazeto Square)
  8. Ingrid Laubrock, Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic)
  9. Larry Ochs - Joe Morris - Charles Downs, Every Day → All the Way (ESP-Disk)
  10. Three Layer Cake, Sounds the Color of Grounds (Otherly Love)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra, Vol. 4: Jo Maka (1977, Souffle Continu)
  2. Kristen Noguès & John Surman, Diriaou (1998, Souffle Continu)
  3. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  4. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)
  5. Manu Dibango, Dibango 82 (1982, We Want Sounds)