The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Allen Michie (The Arts Fuse)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Omar Thomas Large Ensemble, Griot Songs (Omar Thomas Music)
  2. Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music)
  3. Jake Hertzog, Ozark Concerto (Zoho)
  4. Marius Neset, Cabaret (ACT Music)
  5. Jeremy Pelt, Woven (HighNote)
  6. Mark Masters Ensemble, Sam Rivers 100 (Capri)
  7. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition)
  8. Sharel Cassity, Gratitude (Sunnyside)
  9. Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note)
  10. Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Michel Petrucciani Trio, Jazz Club Montmartre (1988, Storyville '24)
  2. Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds)
  3. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  4. Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid)
  5. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM)

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