Ballot 2025

[Abreu - Brownlee] · [Buskirk - Drouot] · [Dryden - Gross] · [Hale - Kamins] · [Kanzler - Margasak] · [Medrano - Parnell] · [Perkins - Silva] · [Slim - Weiss] · [West - Yokoi]

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

• Lina Allemano Four, The Diptychs (Lumo) →
• Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
• Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
• Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
• Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
• Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
• Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
• Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →
• Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
2. Classic Vanguard Jazz Piano Sessions (1953-58, Mosaic) →
3. Miles Davis, Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings (Craft) →

VOCAL

• Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
• Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
• Kris Adams & Peter Perfido, Away (Jazzbird) →

LATIN

• No choice.

DEBUT

• History Dog, Root Systems (Otherly Love) →

Note: Also see the author's section in The Best Jazz Albums of 2025

[Abreu - Brownlee] · [Buskirk - Drouot] · [Dryden - Gross] · [Hale - Kamins] · [Kanzler - Margasak] · [Medrano - Parnell] · [Perkins - Silva] · [Slim - Weiss] · [West - Yokoi]