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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Jim Hynes (Glide, PostGenre)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
  2. Chris Potter, Alive With Ghosts Today (Edition) →
  3. Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note) →
  4. Nduduzo Makhathini, The Myth We Choose (Blue Note) →
  5. Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →
  6. Gregory Hutchinson, Kind of Now: The Pulse of Miles Davis (Warner) →
  7. Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) →
  8. Willy Rodriguez, In the Unknown (I Will Find You) (Sunnyside) →
  9. Emmet Cohen, Universal Truth (Mack Avenue) →
  10. Melissa Aldana, Filin (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
  2. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
  3. Roy Hargrove, Bern (2000, Time Traveler) →
  4. Yusef Lateef, Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1975, Resonance) →
  5. Charles Tolliver All Stars, Right Now . . . and Then (1968, Strata-East) →

 

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