The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
Nate Chinen (The Gig, WRTI, NPR Music)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
- Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Chris Cheek, Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory) →
- Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms) →
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
- Aaron Parks, By All Means!! (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- Thelonious Monk, Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) →
- Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft) →
- Pharoah Sanders, The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
- Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something (Obliquity) →
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
- Harold López-Nussa, Nueva Timba (Blue Note) →
DEBUT
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
- Lex Korten, Canopy (Sounderscore) →
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
Note: Also see The Best Jazz Albums of 2025
