The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Sergio Piccirilli (El Intruso)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Amir ElSaffar, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām)
  2. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi)
  3. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head)
  4. Camila Nebbia - Marilyn Crispell - Lesley Mok, A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch)
  5. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  6. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  7. Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, Live in Vilnius (Fern Flower)
  8. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  9. Peter Evans/Being & Becoming, Ars Ludicra (More Is More)
  10. Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  3. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance)
  4. Thelonious Monk, With Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics)
  5. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note)

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