The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Sidney Carpenter-Wilson (The Mortifying Ideal)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer)
  2. Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music)
  3. Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic)
  4. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  5. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  6. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head)
  7. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
  8. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi)
  9. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
  10. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin)
  2. Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (The Village)

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