The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Stuart Broomer (Free Jazz Collective, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, The Whole Note)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost)
  2. Sophie Agnel, Song (Relative Pitch)
  3. Joëlle Léandre & Evan Parker, Long Bright Summer (RogueArt)
  4. Luz Prado - Wade Matthews - Abdul Moimême, Trust From Intimacy (ScatterArchive)
  5. The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy)
  6. KnCurrent, KnCurrent (Deep Dish)
  7. Sven-Åke Johansson - Pierre Borel - Seymour Wright - Joel Grip, Two Days at Café Oto (Otoroku)
  8. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
  9. Alexander Hawkins, Song Unconditional (Intakt)
  10. Joe Chambers - Kevin Diehl - Chad Taylor, Onilu (Eremite)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. AMM & Sachiko M, Testing (2004 Matchless)
  2. Henry Kaiser, Domo Arigato Derek Sensei (1976-2006, Balance Point Acoustics)
  3. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance)
  4. Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (1994-2024, False Walls '24)
  5. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note)

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