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] 

Philip Watson (Irish Times, Irish Examiner, The Wire)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
  2. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
  3. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
  4. Arve Henriksen - Trygve Seim - Andmers Jormin - Markku Ounaskari, Arcanum (ECM) →
  5. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  6. Billy Mohler, The Eternal (Contagious Music) →
  7. Ganavya, Nilam (Leiter) →
  8. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
  9. Snowpoet, Heartstrings (Edition) →
  10. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Clifford Jordan, Glass Bead Games (1973, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  2. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
  3. Andrew Hill, Grass Roots (1968, Blue Note) →
  4. A New Awakening: Adventures in British Jazz 1966-1971 (Strawberry) →
  5. Chick Corea, Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM) →

 

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