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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Philip Watson (Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Journal of Music)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Yvonne Rogers, The Button Jar (Pyroclastic) →
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings (Nonesuch) →
  3. Jason Moran, Plays Duke Ellington (Yes) →
  4. Alexander Hawkins, No Nation but Imagination (Intakt) →
  5. Cécile McLorin Salvant, With Every Breath I Take (Nonesuch) →
  6. Bill Frisell, In My Dreams (Blue Note) →
  7. Dave Douglas, Transcend (Greenleaf Music) →
  8. The Messthetics & James Brandon Lewis, Deface the Currency (Impulse!) →
  9. Insufficient Funs, Chunk (Diatribe) →
  10. Ben Wendel, Barcode (Edition) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (1972, New World) →
  2. Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance) →
  3. Miles Davis, Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud (1957, Decca France) →
  4. Michael Gregory Jackson, Clarity [50th Anniversary Edition] (1976, Moved-By-Sound) →
  5. Roy Hargrove, Bern (2000, Time Traveler) →

 

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