The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Thomas Staudter (The (Croton) Gazette, The New York City Jazz Record, DownBeat)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note) →
  2. Jason Kao Hwang, Myths of Origin (True Sound) →
  3. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  4. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
  5. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
  6. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
  7. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
  8. Noah Preminger, Ballads (Chill Tone) →
  9. Scheen Jazzorkester & Fredrik Ljungkvist, Framåt! (Grong) →
  10. Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside) →
  2. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance) →
  3. Pharoah Sanders, The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic) →
  4. John Taylor, Close to Mars (2006, CAM Jazz) →
  5. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →

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