The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Scott Albin (Amazon.com)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
  2. Hamilton de Holanda Trio, Live in NYC (Sony)
  3. Ensemble C, Every Journey (Adhyâropa)
  4. Olga Amelchenko, Howling Silence (Edition)
  5. Tobias Meinhart, Sonic River (Sonic River)
  6. Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind)
  7. Yaron Herman, Radio Paradise (Naive)
  8. Yuhan Su, Over the Moons (Endectomorph Music)
  9. Martin Nodeland, Tributaries (Smeik)
  10. Joe Locke & Phil Markowitz, Smoke and Mirrors (Wire Walker)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia, Live at Leverkusen 1994 (Repertoire)
  2. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  3. Ray Russell Quartet, The Complete Spontaneous Event: Live 1967-1969 (Jazz in Britain '24)
  4. Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve)
  5. Michel Petrucciani Trio, Jazz Club Montmartre (1988, Storyville '24)

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