The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

John Pietaro (New York City Jazz Record, johnpietaro.com)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love)
  2. Italian Surf Academy, Ennio Morricone Is Dissolving (41st Parallel)
  3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  4. Three Layer Cake, Sounds the Color of Grounds (Otherly Love)
  5. Mac Gollehon & the Hispanic Mechanics, Pistoleros (World Funk Orchestra)
  6. Fred Moten & Brandon López, Revision (TAO Forms)
  7. Moor Mother, The Great Bailout (Anti- '24)
  8. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
  9. Gwen Laster New Muse 4tet, Keepers of the Flame (Muffymarie Music)
  10. Ed Palermo Big Band, Prog vs Fusion: A War of the Ages (Sky Cat)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Allen Ginsberg, The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience (1970-71, Omnivore)

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