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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Mimmo Stolfi (Off Topic, Roma Report, Succede Oggi)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Miles Okazaki, Boomtown (Pi) →
  2. Bill Frisell, In My Dreams (Blue Note) →
  3. Ivo Perelman - Matthew Shipp - William Parker - Bobby Kapp, Synesthesia (Defkaz) →
  4. Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note) →
  5. Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) →
  6. Jon Irabagon, Focus Out (Irrabagast) →
  7. David Adewumi, The Flame Beneath the Silence (Giant Step Arts) →
  8. Yvonne Rogers, The Button Jar (Pyroclastic) →
  9. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
  10. Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East '25) →
  2. Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
  3. Mal Waldron, Stardust & Starlight: At the Jazz Showcase (1979, Resonance) →
  4. Kenny Barron - Ray Drummond - Ben Riley, So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon (1995, Elemental Music) →
  5. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →

 

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