The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Ralph A. Miriello (Notes on Jazz)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
  2. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork)
  3. Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers)
  4. Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM)
  5. Sinne Eeg & Jacob Christoffersen, Shikiori (Stunt)
  6. Wolfgang Muthspiel - Scott Colley - Brian Blade, Tokyo (ECM)
  7. John Ellis, Heroes (Blue Room Music)
  8. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition)
  9. Alex Sipiagin, Reverberations (Criss Cross Jazz)
  10. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. George Colligan, Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind)
  2. Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian, The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn (1992, ECM '24)
  3. The Charlie Rouse Band, Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (1977, Resonance)
  4. John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform)
  5. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance)

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