The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Roz Milner (Dusted, Milner on Music)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  2. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  4. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-)
  5. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head)
  6. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
  7. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music)
  8. Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi)
  9. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  10. Out Of/Into [Joel Ross - Gerald Clayton - Kendrick Scott - Matt Brewer- Immanuel Wilkins], Motion II (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  3. Jessica Williams, Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985-1987 (Pre-Echo Press)
  4. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  5. Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (The Village)

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