The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Michael Toland (The Big Takeover, The Austin Chronicle)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
  2. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) →
  3. Alex Coke & Carl Michel Sextet, Situation (PlayOn) →
  4. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  5. Kalia Vandever, Another View (Northern View) →
  6. John Scofield & Dave Holland, Memories of Home (ECM) →
  7. Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →
  8. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
  9. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
  10. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  2. Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  3. Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →
  4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
  5. Stephen McCraven, Wooley the Newt (1979, Moved-by-Sound) →

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