Ballots 2026 Mid-Year [1]

The 21st Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2026 Mid-Year

Past Polls Index Critics

Ballot 2026 Mid-Year

Stuart Broomer (Free Jazz Collective, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, The Whole Note)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

Columbia Icefield [Nate Wooley], A Silence Opens (Out of Your Head) →
Marty Ehrlich, Cartographies of Flight: Lines Set Afloat Towards Hope (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →
James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Omni (Intakt) →
Christian Lillinger, Open Form for Society II (Plaist) →
Magda Mayas' Filamental, Murmur (Relative Pitch) →
Pascal Niggenkemper Ensemble Tuvalu, D'Une Rive à L'Autre (Subran) →
The Outskirts, Orbital (Aerophonic) →
Marta Warelis, Still Life With Lemons (Relative Pitch) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)