The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Larry Hollis (Cadence)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Billy Hart, Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions)
  2. Todd Herbert, Captain Hubs (TH Productions)
  3. Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions)
  4. Eric Alexander, Like Sugar (Cellar Live)
  5. Al Foster, Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions)
  6. Joe Magnarelli, Concord (SteepleChase)
  7. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
  8. Sharel Cassity, Gratitude (Sunnyside)
  9. George Coleman, George Coleman With Strings (HighNote)
  10. Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet, Turn It Up!: Live at the Sidedoor (2004-24, Cellar Music)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Chet Baker, Five From '65: The Quintet Summer Sessions (New Land)
  2. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note)
  3. Roland Kirk Quartet, Domino: Live at Radio Bremen TV-Studios 1963 (1963, MIG)
  4. Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler)
  5. Alts 'N Outs: The Other Side of Blue Note (1958-64, Blue Note)

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