The 21st Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2026 Mid-Year
Ballot 2026 Mid-Year
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Tyrone Allen II, Upward (Dreams and Fears) →
- Columbia Icefield [Nate Wooley], A Silence Opens (Out of Your Head) →
- Marty Ehrlich, Cartographies of Flight: Lines Set Afloat Towards Hope (Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
- Alden Hellmuth, Tether (Leiter) →
- Colin Hinton, Three Suites (Endectomorph Music) →
- Adam O'Farrill, Elephant (Out of Your Head) →
- The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
- Yvonne Rogers, The Button Jar (Pyroclastic) →
- Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
- Craig Taborn, Dream Archives (ECM) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Louis Armstrong, Reference: Hot Five & Hot Seven at 100 (1925-28, AlAy/Thingamajig) →
- Marty Ehrlich & Julius Hemphill, Circle the Heart (1982, Relative Pitch) →
- Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch, Feebles, Fables and Ferns (1988, ECM) →
- Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
- Cecil Taylor New Unit, Words & Music: The Last Bandstand (2016, Fundacja Słuchaj) →
