Ballots 2026 Mid-Year [5]

The 21st Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2026 Mid-Year

Past Polls Index Critics

Ballot 2026 Mid-Year

Ferruccio Martinotti (La Stampa, Free Jazz Collective)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

أحمد [Ahmed], Play Monk (Otoroku) →
Ava Mendoza, Alive Alone, Alive Together (Burning Ambulance) →
Gianni Gebbia, Petrichor (Objet-A) →
Harriet Tubman & Georgia Muldrow, Electical Field of Love (Pi) →
Hound Dog Taylor's Hand and Joe Paradiso, The Structure and Dynamics of Disordered Systems (HDTH) →
Irreversible Entanglements, Future Present Past (Impulse!) →
Luis Nacht & Camila Nebbia, Noche Y Niebla (Ears & Eyes) →
Pat Thomas & XT, Strata, Act (Joy Contemporary) (We Jazz) →
These Things Happen, A Gentle Reminder (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
Zu, Ferrum Sidereum (House of Mythology) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

Bill Evans, At the BBC (1965, Elemental Music) →
Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
Duke Ellington, Copenhagen 1964 (Storyville) →
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance '25) →
Sun Ra, East Two + 7 (1972-73, Cosmic Myth) →