The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballots 2025 [1]
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Kassa Overall, Cream (Warp) →
- Sinsuke Fujieda Group, Fukushima (SoFa) →
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Makaya McCraven, Off the Record (International Anthem) →
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
- Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
- Damon Locks, List of Demands (International Anthem) →
- Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid) →
- أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) →
- Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →
- Pharoah Sanders, The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic) →
- Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Joni Mitchell, Joni's Jazz (1968-2023, Rhino) →
- John Coltrane, A Love Supreme [Monophonic Edition] (1964, Impulse!) →
VOCAL
- Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid) →
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
- Kokayi, Live at Big Ears: The Standard Knoxville, TN (Why!Not) →
- Joni Mitchell, Joni's Jazz (1968-2023, Rhino) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Milena Casado, Reflection of Another Self (Candid) →
- Nyron Higor, Nyron Higor (Far Out) →
DEBUT
- Milena Casado, Reflection of Another Self (Candid) →
Paul Acquaro (Free Jazz Collective, Jazz Podium)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
- Marcelo dos Reis, Flora: Our Time (JACC) →
- Vinny Golia - Ken Filiano - Michael TA Thompson, Catastasis (Nine Winds) →
- Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) →
- Camila Nebbia - James Banner - Max Andrzejewski, Presencia (Ears & Eyes) →
- Edition Redux [Ken Vandermark], Broadcast Transformer (Audiographic) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
- Marina Džukljev - Christian Weber - Michael Griener, Industriesalon (Trouble in the East) →
- Ivo Perelman & John Butcher, Duologues 4 (Ibeji) →
- Signe Emmeluth - Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - Axel Filip, Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Peter Brötzmann Trio, Hurricane (2015, Old Heaven Books) →
- Noah Howard Quartet, Schizophrenic Blues: Live in Berlin (1977, Cien Fuegos) →
- Jean-Jacques Avenel & Daunik Lazro, Duo: Bibliothèque De Massy 13 Novembre 1980 (Fou '24) →
- Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) →
- Bobby Naughton Trio, Housatonic Rumble: Live at Charlie's Tap (1985, NoBusiness) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
- Elia Aregger Trio, Live (Unit) →
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- Hamilton de Holanda Trio, Live in NYC (Sony) →
- Ensemble C, Every Journey (Adhyâropa) →
- Olga Amelchenko, Howling Silence (Edition) →
- Tobias Meinhart, Sonic River (Sonic River) →
- Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind) →
- Yaron Herman, Radio Paradise (Naive) →
- Yuhan Su, Over the Moons (Endectomorph Music) →
- Martin Nodeland, Tributaries (Smeik) →
- Joe Locke & Phil Markowitz, Smoke and Mirrors (Wire Walker) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia, Live at Leverkusen 1994 (Repertoire) →
- Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Ray Russell Quartet, The Complete Spontaneous Event: Live 1967-1969 (Jazz in Britain '24) →
- Ella Fitzgerald, The Moment of Truth: Ella at the Coliseum (1967, Verve) →
- Michel Petrucciani Trio, Jazz Club Montmartre (1988, Storyville '24) →
VOCAL
- Michelle Nicolle, The Silent Wish (self-released) →
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
- Holly Cole, Dark Moon (Rumpus Room/Universal) →
LATIN
- Hamilton de Holanda Trio, Live in NYC (Sony) →
- Silvano Monasterios Venezuelan Nonet, The River (self-released) →
- Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band, La Fleur De Cayenne (Sunnyside) →
DEBUT
- Juan Chiavassa, Fourth Generation (Whirlwind) →
- Rico Jones, Bloodlines (Giant Step Arts) →
- Alice Leggett, Bird Song (Zennez) →
Shannon Ali (Shannon J. Effinger) (freelance)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Gary Bartz & NTU, The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control (OYO) →
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible (Changu) →
- Johnathan Blake, My Life Matters (Blue Note) →
- Kassa Overall, Cream (Warp) →
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
- Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
- Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →
- Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954-55, Verve) →
- Bobby Hutcherson, Montara (1975, Blue Note) →
- The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (1965, Verve) →
VOCAL
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
- Ami Taf Ra, The Prophet and the Madman (Brainfeeder) →
LATIN
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico [Live at Town Hall] (Tiger Turn) →
- Roxana Amed, Todos Los Fuegos (Sony) →
DEBUT
- Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) →
- Ami Taf Ra, The Prophet and the Madman (Brainfeeder) →
Ali Alizadeh [Sir Ali] (Jazz Attitude [Frequence K/Jet FM, Nantes, France], Jazzophone)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Mukta, A Night at Pannonica (Cepazz) →
- Mehmet Polat Quartet, Roots in Motion (Aftab) →
- Shems Bendali Quintet, Casbah Qassioun (Jazz Family) →
- The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, Mixed Bag (Summit) →
- Tobias Wiklund, Inner Flight Music (Stunt) →
- Longnon Big Band, Istanbounce (Continuo Jazz) →
- Emmanuel Bex, Eddy M'a Dit (PeeWee) →
- Simon Spang-Hanssen, Turtle Talk (Spangster) →
- Prima Kanta, In a Purple Time (Linoleum) →
- Leila Olivesi, African Rhapsody (Attention Fragile) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Manu Dibango, Dibango 82 (1982, We Want Sounds) →
- Kristen Noguès & John Surman, Diriaou (1998, Souffle Continu) →
- Simon Spang-Hanssen, Afrolantic (2002, Spangster) →
- Khan Jamal, Give the Vibes Some (1974, Souffle Continu) →
VOCAL
- Gaelle Bagot & Juan Manuel Nieto, Jardin D'ailleurs (Musique Live) →
- Carmen Souza, Port'Inglês (Galilo MC '24) →
- Irene Amata, Sembianze (Prodastar) →
LATIN
- Sapocaya, Elementos (Wiseband) →
- Adrien Brandeis, Resurgence (Mantondea Productions) →
- Roger Glenn, My Latin Heart (Patois) →
DEBUT
Mirian Arbalejo (Ditirambop)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
- Al Foster, Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) →
- Mats Gustafsson - Ken Vandermark - Tomeka Reid - Chad Taylor, Pivot (Silkheart) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Hvalfugl, Bag Vore Øjne Strømmer Drømme Sagte Forbi (self-released) →
- Wojtek Mazolewski, Solo (WMQ/NoPaper) →
- Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
- Ester Quevedo, Garabato (UnderPool) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Don Cherry & Latif Khan, Music/Sangam (1978, Heavenly Sweetness) →
- Miles Davis, Live at the Plugged Nickel: December 23, 1965: Second Set (Legacy) →
VOCAL
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
LATIN
DEBUT
- Voodoo Children Orchestra, Kindness Disarms (UnderPool) →
Hrayr Attarian (Jazziz, All About Jazz)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Theon Cross, Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) →
- Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →
- John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
- Gustavo Cortiñas, The Crisis Knows No Borders (Desafio Candente) →
- Bloomers, Cyclism (Relative Pitch) →
- Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Sun Ra, Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (1970, Strut) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
- Bill Evans, Portraits at the Penthouse: Live in Seattle (1966, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Savina Yannatou Primavera en Salonico and Larnia Bedioui, Watersong (ECM) →
- Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
- Laura Ann Singh, Mean Reds (Out of Your Head) →
LATIN
- Harold López-Nussa, Nueva Timba (Blue Note) →
- Roxana Amed, Todos Los Fuegos (Sony) →
- Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) →
DEBUT
- Luciana Bass, Desatornillándonos (Relative Pitch '24) →
- Heat On [Lily Finnegan], Heat On (Cuneiform) →
- Maxine Troglauer, Hymn (Fun in the Church) →
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Avishai Cohen, Ashes to Gold (ECM '24) →
- Marleen Dahms' Alloy, Running and Belonging (Xjazz) →
- Gulli Gudmundsson - Jeroen van Vliet - Koen Smits, Flóð Og Fjara (Challenge) →
- Conor Chaplin - Anton Eger - Mathias Heise - Rasmus Sørensen, The Action 4s (April) →
- Makiko Hirabayashi Weavers, Gifts (Enja) →
- Keelepeksjad, Kalev Tuli Koju (Ava Muusika) →
- Malakoff Kowalski, Songs With Words (Sony) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
- Leszek Możdżer - Lars Danielsson - Zohar Fresco, Beamo (ACT Music) →
- O.N.E., Well, Actually . . . (April) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian, The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn (1992, ECM '24) →
VOCAL
- Estonian Voices, Kallimale (Sheikid '24) →
- Andreas Schaerer, Anthem for No Man's Land (ACT Music) →
- Olivia Trummer, Like Water (Warner Music Italy) →
LATIN
- Halli Guðmunds Club Cubano, Live at Mengi (self-released) →
DEBUT
- Justin Zitt, Frigo (Unit) →
- Sara Magnúsdóttir, A Place to Bloom (self-released) →
Dave Barber (WYSO [Yellow Springs, OH])
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Alchemy Sound Project & Sumi Tonooka, Under the Surface (ARC) →
- Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar) →
- Matteo Alfonso & Giovanni Maier, Mingus Revisited (Caligola) →
- Blue Moods, Force & Grace (Posi-Tone) →
- Al Foster, Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) →
- Kirk Knuffke - Stomu Takeishi - Bill Goodwin, Window (Royal Potato Family) →
- John Scofield & Dave Holland, Memories of Home (ECM) →
- Vinnie Sperrazza - Jacob Sacks - Masa Kamaguchi, Play Elmo Hope (Fresh Sound) →
- Carmen Staaf, Sounding Line (Sunnyside) →
- John Yao and His 17 Piece Instrument, Points in Time (See Tao) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (1967, Verve) →
- Oscar Moore, The Enchanting Guitar of Oscar Moore: The 1945-1965 Years (Fresh Sound) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
LATIN
- Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet, Armando Mi Conga (Amor De Flores Productions) →
- Conrad Herwig, Reflections - Facing South (Savant) →
DEBUT
Franpi Barriaux (Citizen Jazz)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- The Young Mothers, Better If You Let It (Sonic Transmissions) →
- Camila Nebbia - Gonçalo Almeida - Sylvain Darrifourcq, Hypomaniac (Defkaz) →
- Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast) →
- Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Ellinoa, Mejiro (Les P'tits Cailloux Du Chemin) →
- Jakob Bro - Wadada Leo Smith - Marcus Gilmore, Murasaki (Loveland Music) →
- Rafaëlle Rinaudo - Raphaël Quenehen - Simon Winsé, Spin & Spells (Gigantonium) →
- Kalia Vandever, Another View (Northern View) →
- Hilarious Disasters, Unnatural Root (Audio Cave) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Chris Barton (Los Angeles Times)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- SML, How You Been (International Anthem) →
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph (International Anthem) →
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds & Catherine Russell, Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) →
- Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band, Treasury Volume 2 (Turtle Bay) →
- Arcadia Dance Orchestra, St. Louis Jazz (Rivermont) →
- Janet Klein & Her Parlor Boys, Mutiny in the Parlor (self-released) →
- Eight Dice Cloth, The Songs and Arrangements of Armand J. Piron (self-released) →
- Jim Kweskin, Doing Things Right (Jalopy) →
- Nanna Carling, Melodies for Two (The End) →
- Doreen's Jazz New Orleans, Vol. 33: Walkin' Through the Streets (self-released) →
- Loren Schoenberg and His Jazz Orchestra, So Many Memories (Turtle Bay) →
- The High Society New Orleans Jazz Band, Live at Birdland (Turtle Bay) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Larry Birnbaum (Stereophile)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Mulatu Astatke, Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
- Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
- Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp, Realism (ESP-Disk) →
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) →
- Pat Thomas, The Bliss of Bliss (Konnekt) →
- Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton, Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Miles Davis, The Musings of Miles (1955, Craft) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Himself (1957, Craft) →
- Lee Morgan, Here's Lee Morgan (1960, Craft) →
VOCAL
- José James, 1978: Revenge of the Dragon (Rainbow Blonde) →
- Ledisi, For Dinah (Candid) →
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
LATIN
- Albita & Chucho Valdés, Masters of Our Roots (InnerCat Entertainment) →
- Rubén Blades Y Roberto Delgado & Orquesta, Fotografías (RB) →
- Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet, Cuba and Beyond (InnerJazz '24) →
DEBUT
- Knats, Knats (Gearbox) →
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
- Rolf Thofte Quintet, Martha's Dance (April) →
Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi) →
- The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM) →
- Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Thelonious Monk, Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) →
- Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid) →
- Miles Davis, Miles '55: The Prestige Recordings (Craft) →
- William Parker, In Order to Survive (1993, Black Saint) →
VOCAL
- Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork) →
- Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
- Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something (Obliquity) →
LATIN
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Yainer Horta - Joey Calveiro, A Tribute to Benny Moré and Nat King Cole (Calveiro Entertainment) →
- The Pedrito Martinez Group, Ilusión Óptica (GroundUP Music) →
DEBUT
- Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) →
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
- Lex Korten, Canopy (Sounderscore) →
Richard Blute (Free Jazz Collective)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
- Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) →
- Paula Sanchez & Katharina Weber, . . . And Discovering Fishes That Have Their Own Light (Cubus) →
- Yes Deer, Everything That Shines, Everything That Hurts (Superpang) →
- Nick Dunston, Reverse Broadcast (Carrier) →
- Frances-Marie Uitti - Milana Zarić - Elisabeth Harnik, Unified Field (Strange Strings) →
- Sophie Agnel, Learning (Otoroku) →
- Stian Larsen - Colin Webster - Ruth Goller - Andrew Lisle, Temple of Muses (Relative Pitch) →
- Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
- James McKain, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter, . . . Seeing the Way the Mole Tunnels . . . (Balance Point Acoustics/International School of Evidence) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
- Mujician, In Concerts (1993-2010, Jazz in Britain) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Philip Booth (JazzTimes, Jazziz, Culture Pop: Sound & Screen)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Chris Cheek, Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) →
- Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid) →
- Randal Despommier, South (Sunnyside) →
- Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) →
- Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note) →
- Brad Mehldau, Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch) →
- Nordkraft Big Band - Remy Le Boeuf - Danielle Wertz, Silent Course (Gateway Music) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
- John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
- John Scofield & Dave Holland, Memories of Home (ECM) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Bill Evans, Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance) →
- The Charlie Rouse Band, Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (1977, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Kurt Elling & Christian Sands, Wildflowers Vol. 3 (Big Shoulders) →
- Allan Harris, The Poetry of Jazz: Live at Blue Llama (Blue Llama) →
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
LATIN
- Duduka Da Fonseca Trio, Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside) →
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Richard Peña, The Latin Side of Jazz Guitar (Page 38) →
DEBUT
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Ava Mendoza - Gabby Fluke-Mogul - Carolina Pérez, Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) →
- Sun & Rain, Waterfall (Out of Your Head) →
- Lingyuan Yang, Cursed Month (Chaospace) →
- Yodok III, Nidarosdomen (Consouling Sounds) →
- Wolf Eyes X Anthony Braxton, Live at Pioneer Works, 26 October 2023 (ESP-Disk) →
- Violeta Garcia, IN/OUT (Bongo Joe) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Anna Högberg Attack, Ensamseglaren (Fönstret) →
- Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
- Sifters, Sifters (Obliquity) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
- Stephen Davis Unit, The Gleaming World (577) →
- Deepstaria Enigmatica, The Eternal Now Is the Heart of a New Tomorrow (ESP-Disk) →
Note: Debut record by Dave Sewelson - George Cartwright - Gabby Fluke-Mogul - Anthony Cox - Steve Hirsh rejected; Deepstaria Enigmatica should also be ineligible due to Chad Fowler, but the other members appear to be eligible (even Khari Wynn, drummer for Public Enemy since 2002)
Marcela Breton (freelance)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- George Coleman, George Coleman With Strings (HighNote) →
- Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) →
- Rubén Reinaldo, Fusión Olivica (Free Code Jazz) →
- John Santos Sextet & Friends, Horizontes (Machete) →
- Deborah Silver & The Count Basie Orchestra, Basie Rocks! (Green Hill) →
- Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025, Patois) →
- Inés Velasco, A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released) →
- Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Deborah Silver & The Count Basie Orchestra, Basie Rocks! (Green Hill) →
LATIN
- John Santos Sextet & Friends, Horizontes (Machete) →
- Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025, Patois) →
DEBUT
- Rubén Reinaldo, Fusión Olivica (Free Code Jazz) →
Stuart Broomer (Free Jazz Collective, Musicworks, New York City Jazz Record, Point of Departure, The Whole Note)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) →
- Sophie Agnel, Song (Relative Pitch) →
- Joëlle Léandre & Evan Parker, Long Bright Summer (RogueArt) →
- Luz Prado - Wade Matthews - Abdul Moimême, Trust From Intimacy (ScatterArchive) →
- The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy) →
- KnCurrent, KnCurrent (Deep Dish) →
- Sven-Åke Johansson - Pierre Borel - Seymour Wright - Joel Grip, Two Days at Café Oto (Otoroku) →
- Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
- Alexander Hawkins, Song Unconditional (Intakt) →
- Joe Chambers - Kevin Diehl - Chad Taylor, Onilu (Eremite) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- AMM & Sachiko M, Testing (2004 Matchless) →
- Henry Kaiser, Domo Arigato Derek Sensei (1976-2006, Balance Point Acoustics) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →
- Evan Parker, The Heraclitean Two-Step, Etc. (1994-2024, False Walls '24) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Nicholas Bussmann - Sven-Åke Johansson - Yan Jun, Tea Time (Ni-Vu-Ni-Connu '24) →
LATIN
DEBUT
Bill Brownlee (Plastic Sax)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note) →
- Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note) →
- SML, How You Been (International Anthem) →
- Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier, Angel Falls (Intakt) →
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
- Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- James Newton Quartet, Live in Willisau Switzerland 1983 (Rhythm 'n' Flow) →
- Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
- Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Sun Ra, Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic) →
VOCAL
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
- Brittany Davis, Black Thunder (Loosegroove) →
- Lucía, Lucía (La Reserve) →
LATIN
- Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) →
DEBUT
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
- Pete Fucinaro, Little Window (Concrete) →
- Henry Scamurra, Urban Forum (self-released) →