The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
List of Latin Jazz Albums
This page offers an alphabetically sorted list of albums that have
received one or more votes in a given category. The categories are:
- Antonio Adolfo, Carnaval: The Songs Were So Beautiful (AAM Music)
- Albita & Chucho Valdés, Masters of Our Roots (InnerCat Entertainment)
- Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet, El Muki (Saponegro)
- Roxana Amed, Todos Los Fuegos (Sony)
- Mulatu Astatke, Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut)
- Alex "Apolo" Ayala & the Bámbula Project, Afro Puerto Rican Jazz (PMC/Miel Music)
- Bad Bunny, Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment)
- Camille Bertault, Voz E Vocês (Sunnyside)
- Rubén Blades Y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta, Fotografías (RB)
- Adrien Brandeis, Resurgence (Mantondea Productions)
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic)
- Milena Casado, Reflection of Another Self (Candid)
- Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots (Culture Shock)
- Ray Barretto Y Su Orquesta, Celia · Ray · Adalberto: Tremendo Trio! (1983, Craft)
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution '24)
- Catina DeLuna & Otmar Ruiz, Lado B Brazilian Project 2 (Sunnyside)
- Rita Donte, Ritual (Ansonia)
- Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band, La Fleur De Cayenne (Sunnyside)
- Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers)
- Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet, Armando Mi Conga (Amor De Flores Productions)
- Duduka Da Fonseca Trio, Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside)
- Mike Freeman Zonavibe, Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF)
- Fuerza Regida, 111xpantia (Rancho Humilde/Street Mob/Sony Music Latin)
- Javier Girotto & Fabrizio Bosso, Desde Cuando (Parco Della Musica)
- Roger Glenn, My Latin Heart (Patois)
- Halli Guðmunds Club Cubano, Live at Mengi (self-released)
- Conrad Herwig, Reflections - Facing South (Savant)
- Nyron Higor, Nyron Higor (Far Out)
- Hamilton de Holanda Trio, Live in NYC (Sony)
- Karol G, Tropicoqueta (Bichota/Interscope)
- Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil, Choro Das Aguas (Alternate Side)
- Mon Laferte, Femme Fatale (Sony Music Latin)
- Tomás Martin López, Right Here (self-released)
- Harold López-Nussa, Nueva Timba (Blue Note)
- Los Cinco Cardones, El Quinto Cardón (Some Other Planet)
- Brian Lynch, 7X7BY7 (Holistic MusicWorks '24)
- The Pedrito Martinez Group, Ilusión Óptica (GroundUP Music)
- Silvano Monasterios Venezuelan Nonet, The River (self-released)
- Raul Monsalve Y Los Forajidos, SOL (Olindo)
- Fred Moten & Brandon López, Revision (TAO Forms)
- Fabiano do Nascimento, Solstice Concert (Leaving)
- Camila Nebbia - Kit Downes - Andrew Lisle, Exhaust (Relative Pitch)
- Andy Nevala, El Rumbón (The Party) (Zoho)
- Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head)
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho)
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico [Live at Town Hall] (Tiger Turn)
- Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra, A Centennial Salute to Tito & Tito (Truth Revolution)
- Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt)
- Juan Pastor's Chinchano, Memorias (Calligram)
- Hery Paz, Fisuras (Carimbo Porta-Jazz)
- Richard Peña, The Latin Side of Jazz Guitar (Page 38)
- Sabeth Perez, Searching for Beauty (Rogue Tone)
- Dafnis Prieto, 3 Sides of the Coin (Dafnison Music '24)
- Júlio Resende, Piano Português Namora Guitarra Portuguesa Feat. Bruno Chaveiro (self-released)
- Renee Rosnes, Crossing Paths (Smoke Sessions '24)
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Yainer Horta - Joey Calveiro, A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole (Calveiro Entertainment)
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion)
- Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025, Patois)
- Dino Saluzzi, El Viejo Caminante (ECM)
- Marta Sanchez Trio, Perpetual Void (Intakt '24)
- Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band, Live at the Belly Up Tavern (Regime Music Group)
- John Santos Sextet & Friends, Horizontes (Machete)
- Sapocaya, Elementos (Wiseband)
- Samantha Schmutz & Adrian Younge, Samantha & Adrian (Linear Labs)
- Sessa, Perquena Vertigem de Amor (Mexican Summer)
- Edward Simon, Venezuela Latin American Songbook Vol. 2 (ArtistShare)
- Luciana Souza, Twenty-Four Short Musical Episodes (Sunnyside '24)
- Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project, Mi Hogar II (self-released)
- Unity Quartet [Helio Alves - Guilherme Monteiro - Gili Lopes - Alex Kautz], Samba of Sorts (Sunnyside)
- Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet, Cuba and Beyond (InnerJazz '24)
- Manuel Valera New Cuban Express, Rise Again Vol. 2 (Mavo)
- Inés Velasco, A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released)
- David Virelles, Igbó Alákorin (The Singer's Grove) III (El Tivoli Productions)
- Wild Iris Brass Band, Way Up (Ear Up)
- Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Jazz Is Dead 24: Dom Salvador (Jazz Is Dead)
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music)
- Eddie Daniels, To Milton With Love (Resonance)
Album count: 77.