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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James Koblin (The Necessary Blues, WVKR 91.3FM [Vassar College])

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Columbia Icefield [Nate Wooley], A Silence Opens (Out of Your Head) →
  2. أحمد [Ahmed], Play Monk (Otoroku) →
  3. Michael Formanek, New Digs (Intakt) →
  4. Kaja Draksler Octet, Bare, Unfolding (Zavod Sploh/Clean Feed) →
  5. The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
  6. Miles Okazaki, Boomtown (Pi) →
  7. Magda Mayas, Chant (Unsounds) →
  8. Sei Miguel, Viva! (Clean Feed) →
  9. Angelika Niescier, Chicago Tapes (Intakt) →
  10. Caroline Davis, Fallows (Ropeadope) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (1972, New World) →
  2. Marty Ehrlich & Julius Hemphill, Circle the Heart (1982, Relative Pitch) →
  3. Kenny Wheeler Sextet, What Was (1995, False Walls) →
  4. Marion Brown, Live in Europe 1968 & 1972 (NoBusiness) →
  5. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →

 

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