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

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David Cristol (Free Jazz Collective, New York City Jazz Record)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Michael Formanek, New Digs (Intakt) →
  2. Fie Schouten - Vincent Courtois - Sofia Borges - Pierre Baux, Open Space (Relative Pitch) →
  3. Christian Lillinger, Open Form for Society II (Plaist) →
  4. Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Wailers (European Echoes) →
  5. Ivo Perelman - Matthew Shipp - William Parker - Bobby Kapp, Synesthesia (Defkaz) →
  6. Art Edmaiston & Chad Fowler, Memphis Mandala (Mahakala Music) →
  7. Peter Van Huffel - Rieko Okuda - Sofia Borges, Lagrangian Points (4DaRecord) →
  8. Sei Miguel, Viva! (Clean Feed) →
  9. Wrens, Live @ NUBLU (Out of Your Head) →
  10. Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Jacques Coursil, Black Suite (1971, BYG/Charly) →
  2. Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
  3. Sun Ra, Hidden Fire (1988, Strut '25) →
  4. Joe Henderson Quartets, Tetragon (1967-68, Craft) →
  5. Charles Tolliver All Stars, Right Now . . . and Then (1968, Strata-East) →

 

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