The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballots 2025 [4]
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- John Scofield & Dave Holland, Memories of Home (ECM) →
- Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
- Kneebody, Reach (GroundUP Music) →
- Jane Ira Bloom, Songs in Space (Outline) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- Joe Henderson, Multiple (1973, Craft) →
- Joe Pass, Virtuoso (1973, Craft) →
- Michel Petrucciani Trio, Jazz Club Montmartre (1988, Storyville '24) →
- Jaki Byard, Blues for Smoke (1960, Candid) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
- Juan Chiavassa, Fourth Generation (Whirlwind) →
- Paul Hecht, Pyrography (Ears & Eyes) →
Eyal Hareuveni (Free Jazz Collective, Salt Peanuts, Percorsi Musicali)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Sophie Agnel, Song (Relative Pitch) →
- أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) →
- El Infierno Musical, II (Klanggalerie) →
- Anna Högberg Attack, Ensamseglaren (Fönstret) →
- Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) →
- Lava Quartet, Ethereal Chant (Fundacja Słuchaj) →
- Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway, How the Dust Falls (Auricle) →
- Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
- Paal Nilssen-Love Circus With the Ex Guitars, Turn Thy Loose (PNL) →
- The Ex, If Your Mirror Breaks (Ex) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Fred Frith and the Gravity Band (2014, Klanggalerie) →
- Peter Brötzmann - Jason Adasiewicz - Steve Noble - John Edwards, The Quartet: Cafe Oto, London, February, 10 & 11, 2023 (Otoroku) →
- Mujician, In Concerts (1993-2010, Jazz in Britain) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Chris Heim (KMUW-FM [Wichita, KS])
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Ron Blake, Scratch Band (7Ten33 Productions) →
- JD Allen, Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (Savant) →
- Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →
- Thomas Fonnesbæk, In Rome (Storyville '24) →
- Ted Piltzecker, Peace Vibes (OA2) →
- Ben Sidran, Are We There Yet (Bonsai/Nardis) →
- Mike Freeman Zonavibe, Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF) →
- Conrad Herwig, Reflections - Facing South (Savant) →
- Nanami Haruta, The Vibe (Origin) →
- Wild Iris Brass Band, Way Up (Ear Up) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Ike Quebec, The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions (1959-62, Blue Note) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Ledisi, For Dinah (Candid) →
- Kandace Springs, Lady in Satin (SRP) →
- Liz Cole, I Want to Be Happy (self-released) →
LATIN
- Mike Freeman Zonavibe, Circles in a Yellow Room (VOF) →
- Conrad Herwig, Reflections - Facing South (Savant) →
- Salsa de la Bahia Vol. 3: A Collection of SF Bay Area Salsa and Latin Jazz: Renegade Queens (1991-2025, Patois) →
DEBUT
- Nanami Haruta, The Vibe (Origin) →
Tad Hendrickson (freelance)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
- Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
- Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
- Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph (International Anthem) →
- Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM) →
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise [IA11 Edition] (2019, International Anthem) →
- Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
VOCAL
- Ingrid Laubrock, Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic) →
LATIN
- Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) →
- Dino Saluzzi, El Viejo Caminante (ECM) →
DEBUT
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Angles 11, Tell Them It's the Sound of Freedom (Fundacja Sluchaj) →
- Mats Gustafsson - Ken Vandermark - Tomeka Reid - Chad Taylor, Pivot (Silkheart) →
- Kim Jung Jae, Shamanism (Relative Pitch) →
- Littorina Saxophone Quartet, Leaking Pipes (NoBusiness) →
- Eric McPherson, Double Bass Quartet (Giant Step Arts) →
- Ava Mendoza - Gabby Fluke-Mogul - Carolina Pérez, Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
- Ben Stapp, Uzmic Ro'Samg (577) →
- Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
- John Zorn & Dave Lombardo, Memories, Dreams, and Reflections (Tzadik) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance) →
- James Newton Quartet, Live in Willisau Switzerland 1983 (Rhythm 'n' Flow) →
- Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
- Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
- Phillip Golub & Lesley Mok, Dream Brigade (Infrequent Seams) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Ned Rothenberg, Looms & Legends (Pyroclastic) →
- Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible (Changu) →
- Kevin Sun, Quartets (Endectomorph Music '24) →
- Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
VOCAL
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
DEBUT
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
Geoffrey Himes (JazzTimes, Chamber Music)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba - Chris Potter - Eric Harland - Larry Grenadier, First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club (5Passion) →
- Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Lucian Ban - John Surman - Mat Maneri, Cantica Profana (Sunnyside) →
- Ron Blake, Scratch Band (7Ten33 Productions) →
- Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM) →
- Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM) →
- Baltimore Jazz Collective, Baltimore Jazz Collective (Stricker Street) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Thelonious Monk, Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →
VOCAL
- David Amram, Honors Guthrie and Ochs: Old Souls (Guthrie Legacy) →
LATIN
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
DEBUT
Rob Hoff (WQLN NPR [Erie, PA], WETF [South Bend, IN], JazzErie)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Charlie Parker, Bird in Kansas City (1941-51, Verve '24) →
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- Ryan Truesdell Presents Gil Evans Project, Shades of Sound: Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music) →
- George Colligan, Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind) →
VOCAL
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
- Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) →
- Theo Bleckmann, Love and Anger (Sunnyside) →
LATIN
- Ryan Keberle & Collectiv Do Brasil, Choro Das Aguas (Alternate Side) →
- Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
- Eddie Daniels, To Milton With Love (Resonance) →
DEBUT
- Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) →
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Billy Hart, Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions) →
- Todd Herbert, Captain Hubs (TH Productions) →
- Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) →
- Eric Alexander, Like Sugar (Cellar Live) →
- Al Foster, Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) →
- Joe Magnarelli, Concord (SteepleChase) →
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- Sharel Cassity, Gratitude (Sunnyside) →
- George Coleman, George Coleman With Strings (HighNote) →
- Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet, Turn It Up!: Live at the Sidedoor (2004-24, Cellar Music) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Chet Baker, Five From '65: The Quintet Summer Sessions (New Land) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
- Roland Kirk Quartet, Domino: Live at Radio Bremen TV-Studios 1963 (1963, MIG) →
- Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →
- Alts 'N Outs: The Other Side of Blue Note (1958-64, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
LATIN
- Eddie Daniels, To Milton With Love (Resonance) →
DEBUT
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine '24) →
Mark Holston (Latino, Jazziz)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Alan Broadbent, Threads of Time (Savant) →
- Ryan Truesdell Presents Gil Evans Project, Shades of Sound: Live at Jazz Standard, Vol. 2 (2014, Outside In Music) →
- Cyrus Chestnut, Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (HighNote) →
- Mike Clark, Itai Doshin (Wide Hive) →
- JD Allen, Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions) (Savant) →
- The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra, Mixed Bag (Summit) →
- Eddie Daniels, To Milton With Love (Resonance) →
- Lafayette Harris Jr., All in Good Time (Savant) →
- Seth MacFarlane, Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements (Verve) →
- Thom Rotella, Right Time Left (HighNote) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Emily Remler, Cookin' at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988 (Resonance '24) →
VOCAL
LATIN
- Conrad Herwig, Reflections - Facing South (Savant) →
- Catina DeLuna & Otmar Ruiz, Lado B Brazilian Project 2 (Sunnyside) →
- Antonio Adolfo, Carnaval: The Songs Were So Beautiful (AAM Music) →
DEBUT
C. Andrew Hovan (All About Jazz, DownBeat)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) →
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
- Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
- Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note) →
- Jimmy Greene, As We Are Now (Greene Music Works) →
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- Dave Stryker, Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies (Strikezone) →
- Gregory Groover Jr., Old Knew (Criss Cross Jazz) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft) →
- Pharoah Sanders, The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
- Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian, The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn (1992, ECM '24) →
- Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Note: Uncounted excess picks for Rara Avis: Sonny Criss, Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) (1968, Craft); Ken McIntyre & Eric Dolphy, Looking Ahead (1961, Craft); Nathan Davis, Happy Girl (MPS)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S, Portrait Now (Dot Time) →
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
- Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) →
- Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
- أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) →
- Motian & More, Gratitude (Phonogram Unit) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) →
- Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) →
- Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Griot Galaxy, Live on WUOM 1979 (Two Rooms) →
VOCAL
- Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S, Portrait Now (Dot Time) →
- Maria Muldaur, One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (Nola Blue) →
- Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds & Catherine Russell, Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) →
- Anthony Joseph, Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Karol G, Tropicoqueta (Bichota/Interscope) →
DEBUT
- Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds & Catherine Russell, Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) →
- Nils Agnas, Köper Sig Ur En Kris (Moserobie) →
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
Note: Also see The Best Jazz Albums of 2025
Peter Hum (The Ottawa Citizen)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) →
- Billy Hart, Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions) →
- Al Foster, Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) →
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Johnathan Blake, My Life Matters (Blue Note) →
- Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM) →
- Aaron Parks, By All Means!! (Blue Note) →
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Thelonious Monk, Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) →
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Jim Hynes (Glide, PostGenre, Making a Scene!)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible (Changu) →
- Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Aaron Parks, By All Means!! (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance) →
- Carlos Garnett, Cosmos Nucleus (1976, Muse/Time Traveler) →
- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Strasbourg 82 (Gearbox) →
- Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
VOCAL
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
- Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid) →
- Nicole Zuraitis & Friends, Live at Vic's Las Vegas (La Reserve) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
DEBUT
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
- Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
- Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots (Culture Shock) →
- Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note) →
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Kassa Overall, Cream (Warp) →
- Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid) →
- Allan Harris, The Poetry of Jazz: Live at Blue Llama (Blue Llama) →
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
LATIN
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution '24) →
DEBUT
Note: O'Farrill album not explicitly listed under Latin Jazz.
Martin Johnson (NPR Fresh Air, Wall Street Journal)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
- Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something (Obliquity) →
- Chicago Underground Duo, Hyperglyph (International Anthem) →
- Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
- Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
- Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
VOCAL
- Sara Serpa & Matt Mitchell, End of Something (Obliquity) →
LATIN
DEBUT
Sanford Josephson (Jersey Jazz Magazine)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Nat Adderley Jr., Took So Long (NAJ) →
- Eric Alexander & Vincent Herring, Split Decision (Smoke Sessions) →
- Joe Alterman & Houston Person, Brisket for Breakfast (self-released) →
- Caelan Cardello, Chapter One (Jazz Bird) →
- Stella Cole, It's Magic (Decca) →
- The Empress, Square One (Cellar Music) →
- Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) →
- Tyler Henderson, Love Endures (Cellar Music) →
- Caili O'Doherty, Bluer Than Blue: Celebrating Lil Hardin Armstrong (Outside In Music) →
- Jerry Weldon, The Summit (Cellar Music) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Classic Vanguard Small Group Swing Sessions (1953-57, Mosaic '24) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Stella Cole, It's Magic (Decca) →
LATIN
DEBUT
- Nat Adderley Jr., Took So Long (NAJ) →
- Caelan Cardello, Chapter One (Jazz Bird) →
- Tyler Henderson, Love Endures (Cellar Music) →
Matthieu Jouan (Citizen Jazz)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Brìghde Chaimbeul, Sunwise (Tak:til) →
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson, Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) →
- Lagon Nwar, Lagon Nwar (AirFono) →
- Signe Emmeluth - Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - Axel Filip, Hyperboreal Trio (Relative Pitch) →
- Bruno Angelini - Sakina Abdou - Angelika Niescier, Lotus Flowers (Abalone) →
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
- Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
- Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Ronny Graupe's Szelest, Newfoundland Tristesse (BMC) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey (1964, Candid) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance) →
VOCAL
LATIN
DEBUT
Ammar Kalia (The Guardian, The Observer, DownBeat, Jazzwise)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Laura Jurd, Rites & Revelations (New Soil) →
- Wojtek Mazolewski, Solo (WMQ/NoPaper) →
- Makaya McCraven, Off the Record (International Anthem) →
- Enji, Sonor (Squama) →
- Emma Rawicz, Inkyra (ACT Music) →
- Sarathy Korwar, There Is Beauty, There Already (Otherland) →
- Fergus McCreadie, The Shieling (Edition) →
- Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →
- L'Antidote, L'Antidote (Ponderosa Music) →
- Pino Palladino & Blake Mills, That Wasn't a Dream (Impulse!) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Don Cherry & Latif Khan, Music/Sangam (1978, Heavenly Sweetness) →
VOCAL
- Enji, Sonor (Squama) →
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
- Laufey, A Matter of Time (AWAL) →
LATIN
- Harold López-Nussa, Nueva Timba (Blue Note) →
DEBUT
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →
- Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) →
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
- Joe Chambers - Kevin Diehl - Chad Taylor, Onilu (Eremite) →
- Rin Seo Collective, City Suite (Cellar Music) →
- Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork) →
- Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside) →
- The Dave Robbins Big Band, Happy Faces (1963-65, Cellar Music) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork) →
- Kurt Elling & Christian Sands, Wildflowers Vol. 3 (Big Shoulders) →
- Nnenna Freelon, Beneath the Skin (Origin) →
- Nicole Zuraitis & Friends, Live at Vic's Las Vegas (La Reserve) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Bad Bunny, Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment) →
- Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet, El Muki (Saponegro) →
DEBUT
- Rin Seo Collective, City Suite (Cellar Music) →
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →