The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Nuno Catarino (jazz.pt)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt)
  2. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  3. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi)
  4. Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost)
  5. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt)
  6. Luís Vicente, Live in Coimbra (Combustão Lenta)
  7. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)
  8. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  9. Motian & More, Gratitude (Phonogram Unit)
  10. Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors, Orangina (UnderPool)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness)
  2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  3. Bill Evans, Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music)
  4. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance)
  5. Jim Hall, Concierto [50th Anniversary Edition] (1975, Sony Music/Elemental Music)

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