The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Alana Amore Colvin, Huckleberries and Lullabies/Oh, Allegra (self-released) →
- The Cosmic Tones Research Trio, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio (Mississippi) →
- Melvin Gibbs, Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 (2006-25, Hausu Mountain) →
- Patrick Shiroishi & Piotr Kurek, Greyhound Days (Mondoj) →
- K. Curtis Lyle & Alex Cunningham, Quantum Nursery Rhymes of the Divine Horseman (Storm Cellar) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- The Necks, Disquiet (Northern Spy) →
- Pat Thomas, Hikmah (TAO Forms) →
- Phi-Psonics, Expanding to One (Gondwana) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Jessica Williams, Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985-1987 (Pre-Echo Press) →
- Marco Eneidi Quintet, Wheat Fields of Kleylehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics) →
- Hiroshi Yoshimura, Flora (1987, Temporal Drift) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Note: The new jazz vote for Colvin actually refers to two separately released EPs.