Ballots 2026 Mid-Year [6]

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

Past Polls Index Critics

Ballot 2026 Mid-Year

Derk Richardson (The Absolute Sound)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

Steven Bernstein/Scotty Hard, ResoNation Trio/Ultra Resonance (Royal Potato Family) →
Ran Blake & Dominique Eade, Roots & Byways (Sunnyside) →
Patricia Brennan & Sylvie Courvoisier, Talamanti (Antlia) →
Marilyn Crispell & Anders Jormin, Memento (ECM) →
Bill Frisell, In My Dreams (Blue Note) →
Myra Melford & Satoko Fujii, Katarahi (RogueArt) →
Jason Moran - BlankFor.ms - Marcus Gilmore, Shards (Red Hook) →
The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
Craig Taborn, Dream Archives (ECM) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)

Bill Evans, At the BBC (1965, Elemental Music) →
Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Alone in San Francisco (1959, Craft) →
Woody Shaw, Love Dance (1976, Muse/Time Traveler) →
Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
Mal Waldron, Stardust & Starlight: At the Jazz Showcase (1979, Resonance) →