The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

George Varga (San Diego Union-Tribune and Tribune News Service, JazzTimes)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  3. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
  4. Xhosa Cole, On a Modern Genius, Vol. 1 (Stoney Lane)
  5. Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories)
  6. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love)
  7. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  8. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM)
  9. Joshua White, Flora and Fauna: 9 Preludes for Solo Piano (Orenda)
  10. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Miles Davis, Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings (Craft)
  2. Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft)
  3. Frank Zappa, Cheaper Than Cheep (1974, Zappa/UMe)
  4. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  5. Joni Mitchell, Joni's Jazz (1968-2023, Rhino)

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