The 21st Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2026 Mid-Year
Ballot 2026 Mid-Year
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Christine Abdelnour - Frantz Loriot - David Meier - Pascal Niggenkemper, Et Il Y Aura . . . (Veto) →
- Philipp Eden - Frantz Loriot - Marina Tantanozi, And Raw, Lift My Eyes (Inexhaustible Editions '25) →
- Christoph Erb - Magda Mayas - Gerry Hemingway, Phyla Music (Veto '25) →
- Arkady Gotesman, Music for an Imaginary Ballet (NoBusiness '25) →
- Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →
- Sylvain Kassap - Steve Swell - Benjamin Duboc - Chad Taylor, Edges (RogueArt '25) →
- Alexis Marcelo, Solo Piano (Intakt) →
- Vera Morais, Eupnea (Porta Jazz) →
- Camila Nebbia - James Banner - Max Andrzejewski, Presencia (Ears & Eyes '25) →
- Udo Schindler & Paul Rogers, Ephemeral Essences of LowTone Studies (for Duo) (FMR '25) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago, People in Sorrow (1969, Play Loud!) →
- Derek Bailey - Evan Parker - Han Bennink, Topographie Parisienne (1981, Fou '25) →
- Marion Brown, Live in Europe 1968 & 1972 (NoBusiness) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance '25) →
- Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music) →
