The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Bret Saunders (Denver Post, KBCO-FM [Denver])

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi)
  2. Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite)
  3. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love)
  4. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)
  5. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  6. Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms)
  7. Mark Masters Ensemble, Sam Rivers 100 (Capri)
  8. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi)
  9. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head)
  10. Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey)
  2. Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut)
  3. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  4. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance)
  5. Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler)

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