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 Ephland (DownBeat, All About Jazz)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

Ben Allison - Steve Cardenas - Ted Nash, Triological (Sunnyside) →
Paulo Almeida, Love in Motion (Dox) →
Eddie Daniels, To Milton With Love (Resonance '25) →
Conrad Herwig, The Latin Side of Chick Corea (Savant) →
Willy Rodriguez, In the Unknown (I Will Find You) (Sunnyside) →
Fie Schouten - Vincent Courtois - Sofia Borges - Pierre Baux, Open Space (Relative Pitch) →
Lo Steele, Only a Drop (Side Hustle/Little Village) →
Dave Stryker, Blue Fire: The Van Gelder Session (Strikezone) →
Honoring Pat Martino, Volume 2 (HighNote) →
WDR Big Band & John Goldsby, Big Band Bass (Bass Lion '25) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

Chet Baker, Five From '65: The Quintet Summer Sessions (New Land '25) →
John Coltrane, A Love Supreme [60th Anniversary Edition] (1964, Impulse! '25) →
Chick Corea, Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM '25) →
Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM '25) →