The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Past Polls Index
New Albums Rara Avis Vocal Latin Debut
Critics
Abreu - BrownleeBuskirk - DrouotDryden - GrossHale - KaminsKanzler - MargasakMedrano - ParnellPerkins - SilvaSlim - WeissWest - Yokoi

Ballot 2025

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Steve Dollar (freelance)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) →
  2. Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms) →
  3. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
  4. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
  5. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
  6. Otherlands Trio [Stephan Crump - Darius Jones - Eric McPherson], Star Mountain (Intakt) →
  7. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
  8. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  9. Charmaine Lee, Tulpa (Kou) →
  10. Rob Brown - Brandon Lopez - Juan P Carletti, Walkabout (Mahakala Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
  2. Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) →
  3. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →
  4. The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
  5. Cecil McBee, Mutima (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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