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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Gene Seymour (The Nation, BookForum)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note) →
  2. Marta Sanchez, For the Space You Left (Out of Your Head) →
  3. Tyshawn Sorey, Members . . . Don't! (Pi) →
  4. Walter Smith III, Twio Vol. 2 (Blue Note) →
  5. Jason Moran, Plays Duke Ellington (Yes) →
  6. Mark Turner, Patternmaster (ECM) →
  7. The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis, Deface the Currency (Impulse!) →
  8. Reverso, Between Two Silences (Alternate Side) →
  9. Miles Okazaki, Boomtown (Pi) →
  10. Bill Frisell, In My Dreams (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Kenny Dorham, The Complete 'Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia (1956, Blue Note) →
  2. Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
  3. Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps, Music Inc. (1970, Strata-East '25) →
  4. Mal Waldron, Stardust & Starlight: At the Jazz Showcase (1979, Resonance) →
  5. Bill Evans, At the BBC (1965, Elemental Music) →

 

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