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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Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) →
  2. Ensemble C, Every Journey (Adhyâropa) →
  3. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
  4. Jason Kao Hwang, Myths of Origin (True Sound) →
  5. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
  6. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
  7. Joe Fonda & Bass of Operation (Fundacja Słuchaj '24) →
  8. Billy Mohler, The Eternal (Contagious Music) →
  9. Jimmy Farace, Hours Fly, Flowers Die (Shifting Paradigm) →
  10. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Michael Gregory Jackson, Frequency Equilibrium Koan (1977, Moved-by-Sound) →
  2. Ray Russell Quartet, The Complete Spontaneous Event: Live 1967-1969 (Jazz in Britain) →
  3. A New Awakening: Adventures in British Jazz 1966-1971 (Strawberry) →
  4. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
  5. John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) →

 

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