The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

George Grella (The Brooklyn Rail, Red Hook/Village Star-Revue, Bandcamp Daily, Kill Yr Idols, Minimalist Music)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Let the Spirit Out: Live at "Mu" London (Spiritmuse)
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  3. Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!)
  4. Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music)
  5. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop)
  6. Sasha Berliner, Fantôme (Outside In Music)
  7. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
  8. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
  9. Hearts & Minds, Illuminescence (Astral Spirits)
  10. Jacob Garchik, Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time (Yestereve)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Jessica Williams, Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985-1987 (Pre-Echo Press)
  2. Mal Waldron, Candy Girl (1975, Strut)
  3. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance)
  4. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM)
  5. Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds)

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