The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Michael J. West (DownBeat, Washington City Paper, Washington Post)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch)
  2. Theo Croker, Dream Manifest (Dom Recs)
  3. Donny McCaslin, Lullaby for the Lost (Edition)
  4. Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic)
  5. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)
  6. Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note)
  7. Benjamin Lackner, Spindrift (ECM)
  8. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  9. Kalia Vandever, Another View (Northern View)
  10. Mulatu Astatke, Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. George Colligan, Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind)
  2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance)
  3. Classic Vanguard Small Group Swing Sessions (1953-57, Mosaic '24)
  4. Classic V-Disc Small Group Jazz Sessions (1943-49, Mosaic '24)
  5. Marian McPartland, At the Peninsula Library 1972 (Liberation Hall)

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