The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Britt Robson (Minnpost, Bandcamp)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music)
  2. Damon Locks, List of Demands (International Anthem)
  3. Amir ElSaffar, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām)
  4. Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion)
  5. Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
  6. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt)
  7. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  8. Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar)
  9. Cyrus Chestnut, Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote)
  10. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)
  2. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24)
  3. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  4. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance)
  5. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)

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