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

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Michael J. West (DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Theo Croker, Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  2. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  3. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  4. Theon Cross, Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil)
  5. Benjamin Lackner, Spindrift (ECM)
  6. Sultan Stevenson, El Roi (Edition)
  7. Michael Wollny Trio, Living Ghosts (ACT Music)
  8. Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note)
  9. Alon Farber Hagiga, Dreams | Dream (Origin)
  10. Gary Brunton, Spacecraft (Juste Une Trace)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Classic V-Disc Small Group Jazz Sessions (1943-49, Mosaic)
  2. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  3. George Colligan, Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind)
  4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance)