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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Steve Erickson (ArtsFuse)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
  2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
  3. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
  4. Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph (International Anthem) →
  5. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
  6. Mulatu Astatke, Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) →
  7. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
  8. Makaya McCraven, Off the Record (International Anthem) →
  9. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
  10. Theon Cross, Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Griot Galaxy, Live on WUOM 1979 (Two Rooms) →
  2. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
  3. Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  4. Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds) →
  5. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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