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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Nuno Catarino (jazz.pt)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
  2. Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
  3. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
  4. Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) →
  5. Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
  6. Luís Vicente, Live in Coimbra (Combustão Lenta) →
  7. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
  8. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
  9. Motian & More, Gratitude (Phonogram Unit) →
  10. Albert Cirera & Tres Tambors, Orangina (UnderPool) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) →
  2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
  3. Bill Evans, Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music) →
  4. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
  5. Jim Hall, Concierto [50th Anniversary Edition] (1975, Sony Music/Elemental Music) →

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LATIN

DEBUT

 

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