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

Prev[Acquaro - Collins] · [Considine - Geiken] · [Gottschalk - Kenny] · [Koblin - Niland] · [Orlov - Stein] · [Sullivan - Yokoi] 

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) →

 

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