The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
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) →