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

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Ron Wynn (The Nashville Scene, Tennessee Tribune, Rock & Blues Muze)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
  2. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM) →
  3. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
  4. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
  5. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
  6. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
  7. Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note) →
  8. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
  9. Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →
  10. Jeremy Pelt, Woven (HighNote) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Wes Montgomery, The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960, Craft) →
  2. Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Himself (1957, Craft) →
  3. Max Roach, We Insist: Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite (1960, Vinyl Me Please) →
  4. Dexter Gordon, Our Man in Paris (1963, Blue Note) →
  5. Hank Mobley, Roll Call (1960, Blue Note) →

 

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