The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Past Polls
Index
Totals
New Albums
Rara Avis
Vocal
Latin
Debut
Critics
Ballots
Abreu - Brownlee
Buskirk - Drouot
Dryden - Gross
Hale - Kamins
Kanzler - Margasak
Medrano - Parnell
Perkins - Silva
Slim - Weiss
West - Yokoi
Ballot 2025
[Abreu - Brownlee] ·
[Buskirk - Drouot]
·
[Dryden - Gross]
·
[Hale - Kamins]
·
[Kanzler - Margasak]
·
[Medrano - Parnell]
·
[Perkins - Silva]
·
[Slim - Weiss]
·
[West - Yokoi]
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)
→
[Abreu - Brownlee] ·
[Buskirk - Drouot]
·
[Dryden - Gross]
·
[Hale - Kamins]
·
[Kanzler - Margasak]
·
[Medrano - Parnell]
·
[Perkins - Silva]
·
[Slim - Weiss]
·
[West - Yokoi]