The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025 Mid-Year

Ballot 2025 Mid-Year

Fabricio Vieira (FreeForm, FreeJazz)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
  2. Brandon Lopez & DoYeon Kim, Syzygy Vol. 1 (577)
  3. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  4. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  5. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
  6. Tom Weeks, Paranoid II (Wolfsblood)
  7. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)
  8. Camila Nebbia, Rastro O Vacío (Lilaila)
  9. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  10. Eunhye Jeong & Michael Bisio, Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  2. Pharoah Sanders, The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic)
  3. John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform)
  4. Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness)
  5. Noah Howard Quartet, Schizophrenic Blues: Live in Berlin (1977, Cien Fuegos)