The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Lee Rice Epstein (Free Jazz Collective, But does it swing?)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Alexander Hawkins & Taylor Ho Bynum, A Near Permanent State of Wonder (RogueArt)
  2. Talk Show, Miss America (We Jazz)
  3. Dan Rosenboom, Coordinates (Orenda)
  4. Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi)
  5. Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast)
  6. Will Mason Quartet, Hemlocks, Peacocks (New Focus)
  7. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
  8. The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy)
  9. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  10. Kim Jung Jae, Shamanism (Relative Pitch)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  2. Marco Eneidi Quintet, Wheat Fields of Kleylehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics)
  3. Snakeoil, Snakeoil OK (2013, Screwgun)

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