The 21st Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2026 Mid-Year
Past Polls Index
New Albums Rara Avis
Critics
Acquaro - CatarinoCebulski - FinneyFreeman - HoffHovan - LorraiLuen - PiccirilliPick - VargaWatson - Yokoi

Ballot 2026 Mid-Year

 [Acquaro - Catarino] · [Cebulski - Finney] · [Freeman - Hoff] · [Hovan - Lorrai] · [Luen - Piccirilli] · [Pick - Varga] · [Watson - Yokoi]Next

Hrayr Attarian (All About Jazz, Jazziz, Free Jazz Collective)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Amalie Dahl's Dafnie Extended, Live at Moldejazz (Sonic Transmissions) →
  2. Melissa Aldana, Filin (Blue Note) →
  3. Ivo Perelman & Wadada Leo Smith, Duologues 5 (Ibeji) →
  4. Goal Weight [Maggie Cox & Jennifer Gersten], Keep Telling Yourself That (Relative Pitch) →
  5. Aja Monet, The Color of Rain (Drink Sum Wtr) →
  6. Joy Harjo, Insomnia & Seven Steps to Grace (Smithsonian Folkways) →
  7. Tigran Hamasyan, Manifeste (Naïve) →
  8. David Sanchez, Tambó (Ropeadope) →
  9. Mark Turner, Patternmaster (ECM) →
  10. Gustavo Cortinas, The Drum Also Sings (Desafio Candente) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
  2. Roy Hargrove, Bern (2000, Time Traveler) →
  3. Art Pepper, Everything Happens to Me: 1959 Live at the Cellar (Omnivore) →
  4. Grupo Um, Nineteen Seventy Seven (1977, Far Out) →
  5. The Visitors [Earl & Carl Grubbs], Motherland (1975, Craft) →

 

 [Acquaro - Catarino] · [Cebulski - Finney] · [Freeman - Hoff] · [Hovan - Lorrai] · [Luen - Piccirilli] · [Pick - Varga] · [Watson - Yokoi]Next