The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Rob Hoff (WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], WETF [South Bend, IN], JazzErie)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
  3. Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
  4. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
  5. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
  6. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
  7. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
  8. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
  9. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
  10. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  2. Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (1941-51, Verve '24) →
  3. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
  4. Ryan Truesdell Presents Gil Evans Project, Shades of Sound: Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music) →
  5. George Colligan, Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind) →

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