The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Peter Margasak (Nowhere Street, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, DownBeat, Chamber Music)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Natural Information Society, Perseverance Flow (Eremite)
  2. Anna Högberg Attack, Ensamseglaren (Fönstret)
  3. Jeong Lim Yang, Synchronicity (Sunnyside)
  4. The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy)
  5. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  6. Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz)
  7. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  8. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  9. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  10. أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt)
  2. The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  3. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance)
  4. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note)
  5. Roland Keijser Kvartett, Öppet 03/Tre (1968-69, Caprice)

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