The 21st Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2026 Mid-Year
Past Polls
Index
Totals
New Albums
Rara Avis
Critics
Ballots
Acquaro - Catarino
Cebulski - Finney
Freeman - Hoff
Hovan - Lorrai
Luen - Piccirilli
Pick - Varga
Watson - Yokoi
Ballot 2026 Mid-Year
[Acquaro - Catarino] ·
[Cebulski - Finney]
·
[Freeman - Hoff]
·
[Hovan - Lorrai]
·
[Luen - Piccirilli]
·
[Pick - Varga]
·
[Watson - Yokoi]
Bill Brownlee
(Plastic Sax)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
Craig Taborn,
Dream Archives
(ECM)
→
Irreversible Entanglements,
Future Present Past
(Impulse!)
→
Angelika Niescier,
Chicago Tapes
(Intakt)
→
Dave Douglas,
Transcend
(Greenleaf Music)
→
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet,
Happy Today
(International Anthem/Nonesuch)
→
Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson,
Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings
(Nonesuch)
→
The Tomeka Reid Quartet,
Dance! Skip! Hop!
(Out of Your Head)
→
Ben Allison - Steve Cardenas - Ted Nash,
Triological
(Sunnyside)
→
Bill Frisell,
In My Dreams
(Blue Note)
→
The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis,
Deface the Currency
(Impulse!)
→
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
Peggy Lee,
Too Marvelous for Words
(1955, Peggy Lee Associates)
→
Marion Brown,
Live in Europe 1968 & 1972
(NoBusiness)
→
Duke Ellington,
Copenhagen 1964
(Storyville)
→
Art Pepper,
Everything Happens to Me: 1959 Live at the Cellar
(Omnivore)
→
Daunik Lazro - Joëlle Léandre - Paul Lovens,
For Baritone Sax, Double Bass & Drumset
(2013, Relative Pitch)
→
[Acquaro - Catarino] ·
[Cebulski - Finney]
·
[Freeman - Hoff]
·
[Hovan - Lorrai]
·
[Luen - Piccirilli]
·
[Pick - Varga]
·
[Watson - Yokoi]