The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Geoffrey Himes (JazzTimes, Chamber Music)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note)
  2. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
  3. Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion)
  4. Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi)
  5. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi)
  6. Lucian Ban - John Surman - Mat Maneri, Cantica Profana (Sunnyside)
  7. Ron Blake, Scratch Band (7Ten33 Productions)
  8. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)
  9. Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM)
  10. Baltimore Jazz Collective, Baltimore Jazz Collective (Stricker Street)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Thelonious Monk, Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside)
  2. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note)
  3. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  4. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM)
  5. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24)

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