The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Paul Acquaro (Free Jazz Collective, Jazz Podium)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)
  2. Marcelo dos Reis, Flora: Our Time (JACC)
  3. Vinny Golia - Ken Filiano - Michael TA Thompson, Catastasis (Nine Winds)
  4. Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost)
  5. Camila Nebbia - James Banner - Max Andrzejewski, Presencia (Ears & Eyes)
  6. Edition Redux [Ken Vandermark], Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic)
  7. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  8. Marina Džukljev - Christian Weber - Michael Griener, Industriesalon (Trouble in the East)
  9. Ivo Perelman & John Butcher, Duologues 4 (Ibeji)
  10. Signe Emmeluth - Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - Axel Filip, Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Peter Brötzmann Trio, Hurricane (2015, Old Heaven Books)
  2. Noah Howard Quartet, Schizophrenic Blues: Live in Berlin (1977, Cien Fuegos)
  3. Jean-Jacques Avenel & Daunik Lazro, Duo: Bibliothèque De Massy 13 Novembre 1980 (Fou '24)
  4. Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness)
  5. Bobby Naughton Trio, Housatonic Rumble: Live at Charlie's Tap (1985, NoBusiness)

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