The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Rui Miguel Abreu (Expresso, Rimas e Batidas, We Jazz Helsinki; radio Nota Azuis, on Antena 2/RTP)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Kassa Overall, Cream (Warp)
  2. Sinsuke Fujieda Group, Fukushima (SoFa)
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  4. Makaya McCraven, Off the Record (International Anthem)
  5. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  6. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)
  7. Damon Locks, List of Demands (International Anthem)
  8. Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid)
  9. أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku)
  10. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut)
  2. Pharoah Sanders, The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic)
  3. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  4. Joni Mitchell, Joni's Jazz (1968-2023, Rhino)
  5. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme [Monophonic Edition] (1964, Impulse!)

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