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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Michael Ullman (Fanfare, Arts Fuse)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Arild Andersen, Landloper (ECM '24) →
  2. The Kris Davis Trio, Run the Gauntlet (Pyroclastic '24) →
  3. Larry Goldings, I Will (Sam First) →
  4. Noah Haidu, Standards III (Sunnyside) →
  5. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
  6. Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM) →
  7. Javon Jackson & Nikki Giovanni, Javon & Nikki Go to the Movies (Solid Jackson/Palmetto '24) →
  8. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →
  9. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
  10. Renee Rosnes, Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions '24) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Classic V-Disc Small Group Jazz Sessions (1943-49, Mosaic) →
  2. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy '24) →
  3. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
  4. Kenny Garrett, Sounds From the Ancestors (2021, Mack Avenue) →
  5. Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988 (Resonance '24) →

 

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