The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
  2. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
  3. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
  4. Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho)
  5. Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi)
  6. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head)
  7. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork)
  8. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  9. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)
  10. Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Thelonious Monk, Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside)
  2. Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft)
  3. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid)
  4. Miles Davis, Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings (Craft)
  5. William Parker, In Order to Survive (1993, Black Saint)

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