The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Philip Booth (JazzTimes, Jazziz, Culture Pop: Sound & Screen)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Chris Cheek, Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory)
  2. Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid)
  3. Randal Despommier, South (Sunnyside)
  4. Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions)
  5. Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note)
  6. Brad Mehldau, Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch)
  7. Nordkraft Big Band - Remy Le Boeuf - Danielle Wertz, Silent Course (Gateway Music)
  8. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
  9. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition)
  10. John Scofield & Dave Holland, Memories of Home (ECM)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Bill Evans, Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music)
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  3. Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid)
  4. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance)
  5. The Charlie Rouse Band, Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (1977, Resonance)

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