The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas, A Mountain Sees a Mountain (Old Heaven Books) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
- Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) →
- أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) →
- Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
- Pierre Dørge & Kirk Knuffke, Songs for Mbizo: Johnny Lives Forever (SteepleChase) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
- Mats Gustafsson - Ken Vandermark - Tomeka Reid - Chad Taylor, Pivot (Silkheart) →
- John Scofield & Dave Holland, Memories of Home (ECM) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Billy Harper, Trying to Make Heaven My Home (1979, MPS/Ultravybe) →
- Ray Russell Quartet, The Complete Spontaneous Event: Live 1967-1969 (Jazz in Britain '24) →
- The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
- Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Lena Bloch & Kyoko Kitamura, Marina (Fresh Sound New Talent) →
- Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something (Obliquity) →
- Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S, Portrait Now (Dot Time) →
LATIN
- Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
DEBUT
- Tony Miceli, Nico's Dream (SteepleChase) →
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
