Ballots 2026 Mid-Year [2]

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

Past Polls Index Critics

Ballot 2026 Mid-Year

John Chacona (All About Jazz, Postgenre Media, Let's Call This)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

Michael Formanek, New Digs (Intakt) →
Rob Garcia, Sizzle Works (Connection Works) →
Alden Hellmuth, Tether (Leiter) →
Virginia MacDonald, In Search Of . . . (Cellar) →
Jason Moran - BlankFor.ms - Marcus Gilmore, Shards (Red Hook) →
Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →
Miles Okazaki, Boomtown (Pi) →
Yvonne Rogers, The Button Jar (Pyroclastic) →
Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
Mark Turner, Patternmaster (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
Ahmad Jamal, At the Jazz Showcase: Live in Chicago (1976, Resonance) →
Charles Tolliver All Stars, Right Now . . . and Then (1968, Strata-East) →