The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Hrayr Attarian (Jazziz, All About Jazz)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
  2. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  4. Theon Cross, Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil)
  5. Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories)
  6. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition)
  7. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
  8. Gustavo Cortiñas, The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente)
  9. Bloomers, Cyclism (Relative Pitch)
  10. Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut)
  2. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)
  3. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance)
  4. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note)
  5. Bill Evans, Portraits at the Penthouse: Live in Seattle (1966, Resonance)

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