The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Neil Tesser (KSDS-FM, Jazziz)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head)
  2. Gustavo Cortiñas, The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente)
  3. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  4. Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio, Dream a Dream (Libra)
  5. Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid)
  6. Pierre Dørge New Jungle Orchestra, Jazzhus Montmartre Live (SteepleChase)
  7. Ivo Perelman - Nate Wooley - Matt Moran - Mark Helias - Tom Rainey, A Modicum of the Blues (Fundacja Słuchaj)
  8. PlainsPeak, Someone to Someone (Irabbagast)
  9. Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music)
  10. Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  2. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)
  3. James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin)
  4. Sun Ra, Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic)
  5. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Strasbourg 82 (Gearbox)

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