The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Bill Milkowski (DownBeat, Absolute Sound)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts)
  2. Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM)
  3. John Scofield & Dave Holland, Memories of Home (ECM)
  4. Joshua Redman, Words Fall Short (Blue Note)
  5. Dave Douglas, Alloy (Greenleaf Music)
  6. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  7. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
  8. Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar)
  9. Shakti, Mind Explosion: 50th Anniversary Tour Live (Abstract Logix)
  10. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note)
  2. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance)
  3. Joni Mitchell, Joni's Jazz (1968-2023, Rhino)
  4. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Side Up (1957, Verve Vault Series)
  5. Oscar Peterson, Around the World (1969-81, Mack Avenue/Two Lions)

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