The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Derk Richardson (The Absolute Sound)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
  2. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  3. Natsuki Tamura & Satoko Fujii, Ki (Libra)
  4. Sarah Wilson, Incandescence (Brass Tonic)
  5. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
  6. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  7. Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM)
  8. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music)
  9. Steve Tibbetts, Close (ECM)
  10. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance)
  2. Miles Davis, Agharta (1975, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab)
  3. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  4. Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler)
  5. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)

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