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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Andrew Hamlin (The Tone Arm, JazzTimes)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. What You May Call It, Da Qi (MechaBenzaiten) →
  2. Ran Blake & Dominique Eade, Roots & Byways (Sunnyside) →
  3. Ron Carter & Yotam Silberstein, Duets (Jojo) →
  4. Charles Downs Quartet, Inner (ESP-Disk') →
  5. Entropic Hop, The Quest for the Normal Is the Death of the Self (ESP-Disk') →
  6. Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp, Realism (ESP-Disk '25) →
  7. Nikolett Pankovits, Red Dress (self-released) →
  8. Chuck Bergeron, Bass & Face: Duets With Ten Premier Vocalists (Summit) →
  9. Bill Frisell, In My Dreams (Blue Note) →
  10. Skúli Sverrisson & Bill Frisell, For All Your Flowers (Newvelle) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Yusef Lateef, Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1975, Resonance) →
  2. Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959, Craft) →
  3. The Visitors [Earl & Carl Grubbs], Motherland (1975, Craft) →
  4. Yusef Lateef, Lost in Sound (1962, Good Time/Charlie Parker) →
  5. Satoko Fujii's Bunker Ulmenwall Orchestra (2014, Libra) →

 

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