The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Philip Watson (Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Journal of Music)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
  2. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt)
  3. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  4. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  5. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  6. Arve Henriksen - Trygve Seim - Anders Jormin - Markku Ounaskari, Arcanum (ECM)
  7. Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic)
  8. Simon Jermyn, Obsany (Elastic)
  9. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note)
  10. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Clifford Jordan, Glass Bead Games (1973, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
  2. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)
  3. Andrew Hill, Grass Roots (1968, Blue Note)
  4. A New Awakening: Adventures in British Jazz 1966-1971 (Strawberry)
  5. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note)

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