The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Brad Cohan (New York City Jazz Record, Bandcamp Daily)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Chad Taylor Quintet, Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love)
  2. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head)
  3. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music)
  4. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop)
  5. Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms)
  6. Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music)
  7. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
  8. Dabin Ryu, Trio! (Endectomorph Music)
  9. James McKain, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter, . . . Seeing the Way the Mole Tunnels . . . (Balance Point Acoustics/International School of Evidence)
  10. William Hooker, Jubilation (ORG Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. William Hooker, A Time Within: Live at the New York Jazz Museum, January 14, 1977 (Valley of Search)
  2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  3. Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun)

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