The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Tim Niland (Bluesky)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!)
  2. Dave Rempis - Jason Adasiewicz - Chris Corsano, Dial Up (Aerophonic)
  3. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  4. Dave Rempis - Russ Johnson - Jakob Heinemann - Jeremy Cunningham, Embers and Ash (Aerophonic)
  5. أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku)
  6. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head)
  7. Yuhan Su, Over the Moons (Endectomorph Music)
  8. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  9. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
  10. Brom, Чёрная голова [Black Head] (Addicted Label)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Snakeoil, In Lieu Of (2012, Screwgun)
  2. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note)
  3. Paul Bley Trio, Floater & Syndrome: The Upright Piano Sessions Revisited (1962-63, Ezz-Thetics)
  4. Charles Tolliver's Music Inc, Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival (1972, Strata-East)
  5. Joe Henderson, Our Thing to In 'n Out Revisited (1963-64, Ezz-Thetics)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: Also see: 2025 Reset.