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]
David A. Graham
(The Atlantic)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
Patricia Brennan,
Of the Near and Far
(Pyroclastic)
→
James Brandon Lewis Quartet,
Abstraction Is Deliverance
(Intakt)
→
Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner,
The Music of Anthony Braxton
(Pi)
→
Miguel Zenón Quartet,
Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard
(Miel Music)
→
Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore,
Trio of Bloom
(Pyroclastic)
→
Branford Marsalis Quartet,
Belonging
(Blue Note)
→
The Westerlies,
Paradise
(Westerlies)
→
Chad Taylor Quintet,
Smoke Shifter
(Otherly Love)
→
Ambrose Akinmusire,
Honey From a Winter Stone
(Nonesuch)
→
Mary Halvorson,
About Ghosts
(Nonesuch)
→
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
Horace Silver,
Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse
(1965, Blue Note)
→
Kenny Dorham,
Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco
(1957, Resonance)
→
Freddie Hubbard,
On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco
(1967, Resonance)
→
Keith Jarrett,
New Vienna
(2016, ECM)
→
VOCAL
No choice.
LATIN
No choice.
DEBUT
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]