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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Geoffrey Himes (JazzTimes, Chamber Music, Hard Rain & Pink Cadillacs)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Miles Okazaki, Boomtown (Pi) →
  2. Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note) →
  3. Bill Frisell, In My Dreams (Blue Note) →
  4. Harry Skoler, Echoes (Red Brick Hill) →
  5. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
  6. The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
  7. Ben Wendel, Barcode (Edition) →
  8. Caleb Wheeler Curtis, Ritual (Chill Tone) →
  9. Matthew Stevens, Matthew Stevens (Candid) →
  10. Virginia MacDonald, In Search Of . . . (Cellar) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
  2. Jimmy Scott, Falling in Love Is Wonderful (1963, Tangerine) →
  3. Kenny Barron - Ray Drummond - Ben Riley, So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon (1995, Elemental Music) →
  4. Art Pepper, Everything Happens to Me: 1959 Live at the Cellar (Omnivore) →
  5. Yusef Lateef, Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1975, Resonance) →

 

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