The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Matthew Crook (Dismal Niche Arts, Profane Illuminations)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Jessica Williams, Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985-1987 (Pre-Echo Press)
  2. Marco Eneidi Quintet, Wheat Fields of Kleylehof (2004, Balance Point Acoustics)
  3. Hiroshi Yoshimura, Flora (1987, Temporal Drift)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: The new jazz vote for Colvin actually refers to two separately released EPs.