The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Roger Glenn, My Latin Heart (Patois) →
- Alex McLaughlin, A Brand New State (self-released) →
- Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- John Santos Sextet & Friends, Horizontes (Machete) →
- Kevin Sun, Quartets (Endectomorph Music '24) →
- Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
- Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →
- The Waitiki 7, Exotica Reborn: In Studio and Live at House Without a Key (Waitiki International) →
- WDR Big Band, Bluegrass (MCG Jazz) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Doug Beavers, Titanes Del Trombón [Remastered] (2015, Circle 9) →
- Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Camila Meza, Portal (GroundUP Music) →
- Lili Maljic, The Nearness of You: In Loving Memory of Jim Rotondi (Pacific Coast Jazz) →
- Gino Amato, Latin Crossroads 2 (Ovation) →
LATIN
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- John Santos Sextet & Friends, Horizontes (Machete) →
- Rachel Therrien Latin Jazz Project, Mi Hogar II (self-released) →
- Alex "Apolo" Ayala & the Bámbula Project, Afro Puerto Rican Jazz (PMC/Miel Music) →
- Edward Simon, Venezuela Latin American Songbook Vol. 2 (ArtistShare) →
DEBUT
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
