Francis Davis founded The Annual Jazz Critics Poll in 2006. It was published by The Village Voice through 2011. It has since been picked up by Rhapsody (2011-12), NPR (2013-20), and ArtsFuse (since 2021). The Poll was supervised by Davis through 2021, with various degrees of help from Tom Hull, who keeps it going, and manages this website. Hull wrote a history/memoir of the Poll up through 2022 here.
One change to the website as of 2023 is that album titles in the complete results and ballots files have a link (look for →) which will print out a list of everyone who voted for the album. From there, you can get to the ballots for each voter.
The Mid-Year Poll was inaugurated in 2024. The results here have no bearing on the End-of-Year Polls. While critics may vote for late 2025 albums, we do not factor 2025 votes into the Mid-Year results here.
Essays
ArtsFuse will publish three essays by Tom Hull, including tables of the vote leaders. These were all published under the general title: The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year:
- Warming Up a Riff — How It Happened, and Why It Matters: Few things more clearly attest to the endurance of the human spirit and the drive for creativity than the uninterrupted and unstoppable torrent of brilliant new jazz albums we've already seen this year.
- Consensus in Retreat: Tyshawn Sorey tops the Francis Davis Jazz Poll at mid-year, spurring a reflection on signal vs. noise in a crowded jazz landscape.
- The Old World Gets Weirder: Fitting the past into the present: the year so far in rara avis (reissues/archival)
Complete Results
Ballots by Voter
The 127 voter ballots are presented in batches of 20 ballots:
- Acquaro - Catarino
- Cebulski - Finney
- Freeman - Hoff
- Hovan - Lorrai
- Luen - Piccirilli
- Pick - Varga
- Watson - Yokoi
The complete list of voting critics, with links to their individual ballots, is here.
Local Essays
The draft versions of the Arts Fuse essays are also archived here:
- Warming Up a Riff — How It Happened, and Why It Matters
- Consensus in Retreat
- The Old World Gets Weirder
Other essays and scattered notes are available in the website here. Unless otherwise noted, all are by Tom Hull:
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