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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Gonçalo Falcao (jazz.pt)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Michael Formanek, New Digs (Intakt) →
  2. Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →
  3. Henry Threadgill - Vijay Iyer - Dafnis Prieto, Fifteen (Nonesuch) →
  4. Vera Morais, Eupnea (Porta Jazz) →
  5. Marilyn Crispell & Anders Jormin, Memento (ECM) →
  6. Mané Fernandes, sQuigg: playground_etiQuette (Porta Jazz) →
  7. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
  8. Gerry Hemingway, Live at Bau 4 (Hat Hut) →
  9. Rodrigo Amado This Is Our Language Quartet, Wailers (European Echoes) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Art Blakey & the New Jazz Messengers, Buttercorn Lady (1966, Elemental Music) →
  2. Joseph Jarman - Famoudou Don Moye - Johnny Dyani, Black Paladins (1979, Dead Currencies) →
  3. Charles Tyler Ensemble, Voyage From Jericho (1974, Frederiksberg) →
  4. The Visitors [Earl & Carl Grubbs], Motherland (1975, Craft) →
  5. The Oscar Peterson Trio, At Baker's Keyboard Lounge: The Complete Recordings (1960, Verve) →

Note: Rejected vote for Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, To Whom Who Buys a Record (Odin), released in 2019.

 

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