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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Bret Saunders (Denver Post)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. The Tomeka Reid Quartet, Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out of Your Head) →
  2. Harriet Tubman & Georgia Muldrow, Electical Field of Love (Pi) →
  3. Joel Futterman & William Parker, Transcendent Universe (Burning Ambulance) →
  4. Nduduzo Makhathini, The Myth We Choose (Blue Note) →
  5. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
  6. Columbia Icefield [Nate Wooley], A Silence Opens (Out of Your Head) →
  7. أحمد [Ahmed], Play Monk (Otoroku) →
  8. Dave Douglas, Transcend (Greenleaf Music) →
  9. Jason Moran - BlankFor.ms - Marcus Gilmore, Shards (Red Hook) →
  10. Charles Downs Quartet, Inner (ESP-Disk') →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane, At Iridium 2004 (Burning Ambulance) →
  2. Kenny Barron - Ray Drummond - Ben Riley, So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon (1995, Elemental Music) →
  3. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
  4. J Jazz Volume 5: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1970-1988 (BBE) →
  5. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (1972, New World) →

 

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