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

Ballot 2026 Mid-Year

Tom Hull (Tom Hull - On the Web, Notes on Everyday Life)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Meg Okura & Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble, Isaiah (Adhyâropa) →
  2. Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Wailers (European Echoes) →
  3. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
  4. أحمد [Ahmed], Play Monk (Otoroku) →
  5. Anthony Joseph, The Ark (Heavenly Sweetness) →
  6. The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
  7. Irreversible Entanglements, Future Present Past (Impulse!) →
  8. Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →
  9. Mark Lomax II & the Urban Art Ensemble, The Unity Suite (CFG Multimedia) →
  10. Myra Melford & Satoko Fujii, Katarahi (RogueArt) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Art Pepper, Everything Happens to Me: 1959 Live at the Cellar (Omnivore) →
  2. Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
  3. The Lawrence Marable Quartet, Tenorman (1956, Jazz West/Blue Note) →
  4. Sunny Murray & Sabu Toyozumi, Sun's Blessings (1999, NoBusiness) →
  5. James Brandon Lewis & Lutosławski Quartet, These Are Soulful Days (2021, TAO Forms) →