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]
J.D. Considine
(DownBeat)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
Mary Halvorson,
About Ghosts
(Nonesuch)
→
Thomas Morgan,
Around You Is a Forest
(Loveland Music)
→
Linda May Han Oh,
Strange Heavens
(Biophilia)
→
James Brandon Lewis Quartet,
Abstraction Is Deliverance
(Intakt)
→
Patricia Brennan,
Of the Near and Far
(Pyroclastic)
→
Miguel Zenón Quartet,
Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard
(Miel Music)
→
Ches Smith,
Clone Row
(Otherly Love)
→
Ambrose Akinmusire,
Honey From a Winter Stone
(Nonesuch)
→
Myra Melford,
Splash
(Intakt)
→
Anouar Brahem,
After the Last Sky
(ECM)
→
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate
(1963, Resonance)
→
Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley,
Flashing Spirits
(1988, Burning Ambulance)
→
Thelonious Monk,
Bremen 1965
(Sunnyside)
→
The Piano Choir,
Handscapes
(1972, Strata-East/Mack Avenue)
→
Snakeoil,
In Lieu Of
(2012, Screwgun)
→
VOCAL
Emi Makabe,
Echo
(Sunnyside)
→
Laura Ann Singh,
Mean Reds
(Out of Your Head)
→
Cécile McLorin Salvant,
Oh Snap
(Nonesuch)
→
LATIN
Patricia Brennan,
Of the Near and Far
(Pyroclastic)
→
Miguel Zenón Quartet,
Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard
(Miel Music)
→
Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra,
Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley
(Zoho)
→
DEBUT
Thomas Morgan,
Around You Is a Forest
(Loveland Music)
→
Brandon Woody,
For the Love of It All
(Blue Note)
→
[Abreu - Brownlee]
· [Buskirk - Drouot] ·
[Dryden - Gross]
·
[Hale - Kamins]
·
[Kanzler - Margasak]
·
[Medrano - Parnell]
·
[Perkins - Silva]
·
[Slim - Weiss]
·
[West - Yokoi]