The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms) →
- Jason Moran - Trondheim Jazz Orchestra - Ole Morten Vagan, Go to Your North (Yes) →
- Paul Rogers, Peace and Happiness (Fundacja Słuchaj) →
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
- John Dikeman - Sun-Mi Hong - Aaron Lumley - Marta Warelis, Old Adam on Turtle Island (Relative Pitch) →
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Jakob Bro - Wadada Leo Smith - Marilyn Crispell - Andrew Cyrille, The Montclair Session (Loveland Music) →
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) →
- Snakeoil, In Lieu Of (2012, Screwgun) →
- Jessica Williams, Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985-1987 (Pre-Echo Press) →
- Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
- Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
VOCAL
- Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something (Obliquity) →
- Jason Moran - Trondheim Jazz Orchestra - Ole Morten Vagan, Go to Your North (Yes) →
- Lex Korten, Canopy (Sounderscore) →
LATIN
DEBUT
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
- Kim Jung Jae, Shamanism (Relative Pitch) →
- Lex Korten, Canopy (Sounderscore) →
Note: See also TNB 2025 Top 50 New Jazz and Experimental Albums of the Year
