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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Mark Sullivan (All About Jazz)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
  2. Joshua Redman, Words Fall Short (Blue Note) →
  3. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
  4. Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM) →
  5. Arve Henriksen - Trygve Seim - Andmers Jormin - Markku Ounaskari, Arcanum (ECM) →
  6. Charlie Ballantine, East by Midwest (Origin) →
  7. Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon) →
  8. Kaisa's Machine, Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music) →
  9. Savina Yannatou Primavera en Salonico and Larnia Bedioui, Watersong (ECM) →
  10. Stephan Thelen, Worlds in Collision (RareNoise) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music '24) →
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
  3. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
  4. Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside) →
  5. John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) →

 

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