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] 

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) →

 

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