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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