The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Jerome Wilson (All About Jazz, Radio Fairfax)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Ensemble C, Every Journey (Adhyâropa)
  2. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook)
  3. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
  4. Fabia Mantwill Orchestra, In.Sight (GroundUP Music)
  5. Jason Kao Hwang, Myths of Origin (True Sound)
  6. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
  7. Nicole Glover, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant)
  8. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
  9. Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms)
  10. Jimmy Farace, Hours Fly, Flowers Die (Shifting Paradigm)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance)
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance)
  3. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note)
  4. Pharoah Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue)
  5. A New Awakening: Adventures in British Jazz 1966-1971 (Strawberry)

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